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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse; made for engineering purposes and was the first high-level programming language to be made for a computer; it is not an acronym -
Fortran
Developed by IBM or International Business Machines; developed to easily translate math formulas into code; stands for FORmula TRANslation -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remington Rand; before FORTRAN, it was used for functional programming; is not an acronym -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Murray Hopper; is mainly used for business and administrative purposes and readable like normal English; stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy; used for artificial intelligence products; is not an acronym -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz; used in many business appliances; Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth; used for educational purposes, like teaching students how to program; is not an acronym -
RPG
Developed by IBM or International Business Mechanics; is a report-building program used in DEC and IBM minicomputer operating systems and has progressed into a completely procedural programming language; stands for Report Program Generator, and it also stands for role-playing game. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon; it is used for learning; is not an acronym -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie; used for non-numeric applications like system programming ;not an acronym -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner; used among compiler writers, programming researchers, theorem provers, is a functional programming language; is not an acronym -
SQL
Developed at IBM, or International Business Mechanics, by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce; it is used to convey with databases and is also the standard language for relational database management systems; it stands for Structured Query Language -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie; used in embedded hardware programming where resources are scarce; is not an acronym -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup; it is mainly used for scripting; is not an acronym, extended version of C -
ADA
Developed by a team, directed by Dr. Jean Ichbiad; used for big, long-lasting appliances; is not an acronym -
Java
Developed by James Gosling; it is used to create appliances on your computer; is not an acronym -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum; it's used to test microchips at Intel, powering Instagram, building video games with PyGame library; it is not an acronym but Python BDLF means Benevolent Dictator for Life -
Visual Basic
The main part of visual basic was built on older BASIC programming language, in a way, Tripod and Microsoft helped develop it, but the actual creator isn't really given; a programmer that uses a graphical user interface, or GIU, to choose and change already selected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language; it is not an acronym -
PHP
developed by Rasmus Lerdorf; is a server-side scripting language used mainly for web development; recursive acronym, stands for Hypertext Preprocessor -
Delphi
Developed by Anders Hejlsberg at Borland Software Company; supports structured and object-oriented design and based on Object Pascal; is not an acronym -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich; used to control webpages on the customers browser, server-side programs, sometimes mobile appliances; is not an acronym
