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Plankalkul
developer: Konrad Zuse
primary purpose: engineering -
fortran
developer: John Backus
primary purpose: easy translation of math formulas into code
acronym: FORmula TRANslation -
MATH-MATIC
developer: Charles Katz
primary purpose: to improve upon Fortran -
Lisp
developer: John McCarthy
primary purpose: easy manipulation of data strings
acronym: LISt Processing -
COBOL
developer: CODASYL
primary purpose: portable programing language for data processing
acronym: common business-oriented language -
RPG
developer: IBM
primary purpose: to serve as an alternative to punch card processing system
acronym: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
developer: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
primary purpose: ease of use
acronym: Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
developer: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon
primary purpose: draw basic shapes -
B
developer: D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson
primary purpose: non-numeric applications -
ML
developer: Robin Milner
primary purpose: general purpose functions
acronym: Meta Language -
PASCAL
developer: Niklaus Wirth
primary purpose: to teach programing techniques -
SQL
developer: Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin
primary purpose: query, insert, update and modify data -
C
developer: Dennis Ritchie
primary purpose: overcome problems of earlier languages -
C++
developer: Bjarne Stroustrup primary purpose:
surpass the c language -
ADA
developer: Jean Ichbiah
primary purpose: to be safe and strong -
Python
developer: Guido van Rossum
primary purpose: to be capable with exceptions and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system -
Java
developer: james gosling
primary purpose: handheld devices and set top boxes -
Visual Basic
developer: Microsoft
primary purpose: extend the abilities of basic -
PHP
developer: Rasmus Lerdorf
primary purpose: dynamic web applications
acronym: Personal Home Page -
Delphi
developer: Anders Hejlsberg
primary purpose: Windows applications -
JavaScript
developer: Brendan Eich
primary purpose: computer browsers