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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Translates to "Plan Calculus" in english. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus as a general-purpose language. Stands for FORmula TRANslating system. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Charles Katz to compile. -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy as a general-purpose coding language. -
COBOL
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. Was created for business use. Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Created by IBM, RPG was a business-oriented coding language. It stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, BASIC was prized with its ease-of-use. It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert as an educational coding language. -
B
Created by Ken Thompson, this was an all-around system language. -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth to promote good programming practices. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie, and prized for its structured programming format. -
ML
Created by Robin Milner as a general-purpose coding language. -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce to process queries. Also known as the Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah, this language was used to supersede the hundreds of programming languages used by the DoD. It was named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, and became the fist constantly-evolving coding language. -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum as a general-purpose coding language. -
Virtual Basic
Created by Microsoft, it was prized as an easy-to-learn coding language. -
Delphi
Created by Borland, this language was used for graphical applications. -
Java
Created by James Gosling as a general-use coding language. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich for usage on the web. -
PHP
Created by Rasmis Lerdorf for web design.