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Plankalkul
The name means "Plan Calculus”. It was created by Konrad Zuse for plan calculation.
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Fortran
Fortran was developed to do numeric computation and scientific computing and was developed by IBM. The name is from: FORmula TRANslating system.
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MATH-MATIC
Charles Katz created this as an improvement over FORTRAN. MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 Compiler.
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Lisp
John McCarthy created this program for practical math notation. It stands for: LISt Processing.
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COBOL
It stands for: COmon Business Oriented Language. A committee of researchers came together to create this program to do business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
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RPG
Ceated by IBM to replicate the punched card processing system.
It stands for: Report Program Generator.
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BASIC
John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz designed the program so that there was less difficulty with custom software. It stands for: Basic information.
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LOGO
Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert created the program for educational use. The name comes from the Greek word meaning "word".
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B
Designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson created the program which typically involves complex logical decision-making, and processing of integers, characters, and bit strings. The name comes from BCPL, stripped of anything Thompson thought was not important, to basically just the B.
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C
Dennis Ritchie created this to provide low level access to memory. The C is for complier.
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PASCAL
Niklaus Worth created it for good programming tactics.
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ML
Robin Milner created it to develop proof tactics in the LCF Theorem Prover. ML is short for MetaLanguage.
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SQL
It stands for: Structured Query Language. Donald D. Chamberlin created it to be able to complete the following taks: data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control.
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ADA
It was named after Augusta Ada Lovelace. Designed for large, long term applications by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah.
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C++
It is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup. The name comes from a pun involving the increment operator.
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Python
Guido Van Rossum ceated it to emphasizes code readability.
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Visual Basic
Microsoft created to be used to create applications easily. The name comes from BASIC.
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Javascript
This is a scripting language from Java, which is where the name comes from. It was created by Netscape Communications Corporation.
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Java
James Gosling created it to "Write once, run anywhere". It got its name as core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
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PHP
Rasmus Lerdof created it to beused to produce dynamic web pages. The name is short for Personal Home Page.
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Delphi
Borland created this to be used to make programming for Windows easy. There was no information on where the name comes from.
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