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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkul was the first real programming language. Plankalkul stands for Plan Calculus. -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN was developed by John Backus. FORTRAN was designed for numeric computation and scientific computing. FORTRAN is an acronym for Formula Translator. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was designed by Remington Rand. MATH-MATIC was an early programming language for the UNIVAC 1 and UNIVAC 2. MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. -
COBOL
Cobol was created by CODASYL. Cobol was designed to be used for businesses and administrative purposes. Cobol stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
RPG was developed by IBM. RPG was designed to be a report building program but developed into a programming language. RPG is an acronym for the words Report Program Generator. -
Lisp
Lisp was created by John McCarthy. Lisp was designed for AI and machine learning. Lisp is named after LISt Processor. -
BASIC
BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College. BASIC was designed to compile high-level programming languages and make them easy to use. The name BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
LOGO was designed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert. LOGO was designed movement and drawing produced line or vector graphics. LOGO was named after the greek word "logos" which means word or thought. -
B
B was developed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. It was designed for non-numeric applications such as system programming. B was the shortened version of BCPL language. -
ML
ML was developed by Robin Milner. ML includes compile-time type checking and type inference. ML is an acronym of the words Met Language. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth. PASCAL was designed to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. PASCAL was named after Blaise Pascal. -
C
The C programming language was created by Dennis Ritchie. C programming language is used for scripting system applications. It was named C because it was the improved version of B. -
SQL
SQL was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL was developed to manage date in a relational database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
ADA was developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. ADA was developed as a general purpose programming language. The language was named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ helped to write fast, portable programs. C++ was the improved version of C and included most C programs. -
Python
Python was developed by Guido van Rossum. Python was designed for desktop and web applications. Python was named after the show Monty Python's Flying Circus. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. Visual basic allows programmers to create software interface and codes in an easy to use graphical environment. The language was named Visual Basic because everything is visual and easier to understand than some other languages. -
PHP
PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP was designed for Static websites, Dynamic websites or Web applications. PHP is an acronym of the word Personal Home Page. -
Delphi
Delphi was create by Anders Hejlsberg. Delphi was designed to build applications for primarily Windows but was also used for other operating systems. Delphi got it's name from the Oracle of Delphi. -
Javascript
Javascript was created by Brendan Eich. Javascript was designed for object oriented programming for web pages. It was named Javascript because the idea was to make it a language complimentary to Java. -
Java
Java was created by James Gosling. Java was designed for simple use and object oriented programming. Java was named after Java coffee from Indonesia.