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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse and was made to create procedures and structured language. Plankalkul, means something along the lines of Plan Calculus. Citation: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/725632/Plankalkul -
Fortran
Fortran was developed in 1957 by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus. Fortran was designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code. Fortran stands for FORmula TRANslation. Citation: http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/fortran/fortran.html -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed in 1957 by Charles Katz. It was designed to replace FORTRAN, and later led to the development of "the first English-Language business data processing compiler." Citation: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/110966 -
Lisp
Lisp was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy and was created as a "practical mathematical notation for computer programs."
Lisp stands for LISt Processing. Citation: https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Lisp_(programming_language).html -
COBOL
COBOL was developed in 1959 at the Conference on Data Systems Languages. COBOL was designed to be a compiled computer programming language made for business use. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Laguage. Citation: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/graduate/631/Fall2002/COBOL.pdf -
BASIC
BASIC developed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. It was created with the puurpose of being the simplest language they could create that could still develop programs. It expanded very widely, but began to teach students only at the school Dartmouth, to program.
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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RPG
RPG was developed in 1965 by IBM with the purpose of "generating informative large-scale reports from mainframe databases. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. Citation: http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep.pl?_key=RPG -
LOGO
LOGO was developed in 1967 by a team led by Wallace Feurzig, with Seymour Papert being an important contributor. LOGO was developed as a dialect of Lisp, designed as a tool for learning, and as such is extremely interactive. LOGO stands for Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented (computer programming language). Citation: http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/index.html -
B
B was a language developed by D.M. Ritchie and K.L. Thompson in 1969. It was made primarily for "non-numeric applications," such as system programming. Citation: http://progopedia.com/language/b/ -
ML
ML was developed in 1970 by Robin Milner and was "conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover." ML stands for Metalanguage. Citation: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/ML_(programming_language).html -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth, and was made for eduacational purposes. It was made to teach students "structured programs." Pascal is not an acronym but rather is named for Blaise Pascal. Citation: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/445399/Pascal -
SQL
SQL was developed in 1970 by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL was designed in order to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's "original quasi-relational database management system. Aside from this, it is used to manage data in "relational database managing." SQL stands for Structured Query Language. Citation: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/110966 -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. C was designed to be a "general-purpose, high-level language," and was first used to write the operating system UNIX. Citation: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_overview.htm -
Ada
Ada was a programming language developed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah. It was commisioned by the Department of Defense (DoD) and its purpose was to supercede the hundreds of computer languages in use by the DoD. It was also made to be reliable in "mission critical applications."
Ada is not an acronym but rather was named for Ada Lovelace.
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C++
C++ was developed in 1983 by Bjarne Stroustrup with the purpose of adding object-oriented programming into the C laguage. Citation: http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/ -
Python
Python was developed in 1989 by Guido van Rossum. It was made to be a successor to the ABC language "capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system." Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#History -
Java
Java was developed in 1991 by a small group of Sun engineers called the "Green Team" led by James Gosling. Java was designed to bring network computing to the everyday lives of the public or to "extend the power of network computing to the activities of everyday life." Citation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javahistory-index-198355.html -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was released by Microsoft, however Alan Cooper I believe was an important contributor. Originally, I think Visual Basic was a form building application. Citation: http://www.max-visual-basic.com/history-of-visual-basic.html -
Delphi
Delphi was developed in 1995 by Borland, and was made to be a rapid application development tool for Windows. Citation: http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/delphi/delphi.html -
PHP
PHP was created in 1995 by Ramus Lerdorf. It was used to design web pages and/or produce websites online. PHP stands for Personal Home Page/Hypertext Processor (the name was changed but I included both). Citation: http://www.myphpnet.com/the-history-of-the-php-programming-language -
Javascript
Javascript was developed in 1996 by Brendan Eich. It was released as part of Netscape 2 and got its name because "its core syntax closely resembled Java." Javascript was useful mainly because it "could be embedded in Web pages, could process numbers, and could modify the contents of forms." Citation: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/jshistory.html
