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Plankalkul
Made by Konrad Zuse. Used for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Made by John Backus. Used for general-purposes, numeric computation and scientific computing. -
MATH-MATIC
Made by Grace Hopper and Charles Katz. Used as a compiler for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy. Used for artificial intelligence research. -
COBOL
Common Business-Oriented Language. Designed by Grace Hopper. Primary purpose is business uses. -
RPG
Developed by IBM. Used for business applications. Stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Used for general-purpose and emphasized for ease of use. -
LOGO
Made by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Used for making "turtle graphics" and other general purposes. -
B
Primarily used for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, like systems and language software. Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie. -
PASCAL
Made by Niklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen. Used for programing instruction. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie. Used for general purposes. -
ML
Made by Robin Milner. Stands for Meta Language. Used for general purpose functional programming. -
SQL
Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. Structured Query language. Used for managing data in databases. -
ADA
Developed by a team that was led by Jean Ichbiah. Mainly used for general-purposes, defense and commercial use, and also niche solutions for safety critical systems. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup. General-purposes and low-level memory manipulation. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Alan Cooper. The primary purpose of the language is to allow programmers to create software interface and codes in an easy to use graphical environment. -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum. Used for general purposes. -
Delphi
Made by Anders Hejlsberg. Used for rapid application development for Windows. -
Java
James Gosling. Used for developing mobile, desktop, web, server side and dynamic web applications. -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich. Used for client side scripting. -
PHP
Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. Used for server-side web development. Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor