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Plankalkül
Creator - Konrad Zuse
Purpose - First high level programming language
Name - Comes from German "plan calculus" -
Fortran
Creator - IBM
Purpose - Scientific and engineering applications
Name - Comes from "for(mula) tran(slation)" -
MATH-MATIC
Creator - Remington Rand
Purpose - Calculated numeric exponents with decimals and franctons
Name - Was the marketing name for the Algebraic Translator 3 -
Lisp
Creator - John McCarthy
Purpose - Mathematical notation for computer programs
Name - Comes from "LIS(t) P(rocessor) -
IBM RPG
Creator - IBM
Purpose - Business applications
Name - Report Program Generator -
COBOL
Creator - CODASYL
Purpose - Business use
Name - Common Business-Oriented Language -
BASIC
Creator - John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose - Easy to use, general purpose
Name - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
Creator - Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Purpose - Drew turtle graphics
Name - Comes from Greek word Logos -
B
Creator - Bell Labs
Purpose - System and language software
Name - Possibly came from the BCPL language -
Pascal
Creator - Niklaus Wirth
Purpose - Used to for programming practice
Name - Named after Blaise Pascal -
C
Creator - Dennis Ritchie
Purpose - General-purpose
Name - Based as a successor to the B language -
ML
Creator - Robin Milner
Purpose - General-purpose
Name - Meta Language -
SQL
Creator - ISO, IEC
Purpose - Managed relational database management systems
Name - Structured Query Language -
Ada
Creator - Jean Ichbiah
Purpose - Multipurpose language, upgrade from Pascal
Name - Named after Ada Lovelace -
C++
Creator - Bjarne Stoustrup
Purpose - Extension of the C language
Name - Named after the C language -
Visual Basic
Creator - Microsoft
Purpose - User friendly programming trainer
Name - Named after Basic -
Python
Creator - Guido van Rossum
Purpose - General-purpose
Name - Named after "Monty Python's Flying Circus" -
Delphi
Creator - Borland
Purpose - Software development kit
Name - Codename during language's beta -
Java
Creator - James Gosling
Purpose - General-purpose
Name - Named after coffee -
JavaScript
Creator - Brendan Eich
Purpose - Web programming
Name - Named after coffee again -
PHP
Creator - Zend Technologies
Purpose - General-purpose
Name - Personal Home Page