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Plankalkul
Designed Konrad Zuse. A programming language designed for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus. Fortran was built for scientific and engineering applications. Short for Formula Translation -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remington Rand. Used for providing algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy. Primarily used for practical mathematical notation for computer programs. -
COBOL
Made by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. Cobol was a English like language meant for business use. COBOL stands for common business-oriented language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM.Made as a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401. Acronym for Report Program Generator -
Basic
Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Basic was used to give an easy to learn code to average people.
Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Used to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson, B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Intended to encourage good programming practices. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie, C was primarily used to re-implement the Unix operating system -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner. Used to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. Acronym for MetaLanguage -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce. Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. Acronym for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Developed by Jean Ichbiah in 1980 to standardize the programing languages of the US DoD. The program is named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ was an extension of the C language built for program organization. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum. Main purpose is readability along with being simpler than other larger languages. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft. Built for beginners and easy, simple coding . -
Delphi
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Java
Developed by James Gosling. Built so that once the code is written it can be run on any system. -
JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich. Primarily used for Web design. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed for web development. Acronym for Personal Home Page.