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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse. Programming language designed for engineering purposes. First high level programming to be designed. -
FORTRAN
. Developed by John Backus. General purpose language use for numeric computation and scientific computing. For scientific and engineering applications. -
Math-Matic
Developed by Remington Rand. It could contain numeric components. It was an early computer programming language. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy. Family of computer programming languages. It is the second oldest high level programming language. Fortan is the only one older by one year. -
COBOl
Acronym for common business-oriented language. Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. English like computer language designed for business use. Object oriented since 2002. Not used as often since newer languages have been created and experienced people have retired. -
RPG
Developed by IBM. High level programming language. Manly used for business applications. Only available on IBM based systems currently. -
BASIC
Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It is a high level computer programming that emphasizes ease of use. The purpose was to allow people not in the field of science or mathematics to use computers. -
Logo
Developed by Wally Fuerzeig and Seymour Papert. A general purpose language known for its turtle graphics that produce line graphs. It is an adaptation of Lisp. -
PASCAL
Imperative and procedural computer language. It is a small and efficient language created to encourage good programming practices. -
B
- Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was derived from BCPL and may be considered a shortened contraction of it. It was designed for machine independent applications like a language software.
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C
Stable release-2011. Designed by Dennis Ritchie. It is a general purpose computer language. Used to map efficiently to machine instructions and has great use in applications. -
ML
Developed by Robin Miler. 1973. General function programming language. It has roots in Lisp and It provides a pattern matching function and it is known to not cause runtime errors. -
SQL
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce. Domain specific language. Designed for managing data held in RDBMS (relational database management system.) Particularity useful in handling structured data where there are different variables of the data. -
Python
Interpreted high level computer programming language. Created by Guido Van Rossum. It emphasizes code readability. Provides clear programming on small and large scale. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft. Third generation event driven programming language. It is relatively easy to learn and to use. It was derived from BASIC and it enables applications to access databases. A programming can create an application using this computer programming language. -
Delphi
. Developed by Borland, Embarcadero Technologies. Integrated development environment. Used for rapid development of software for mobile, pc, etc. -
JAVA
. Developed by James Gosling, Sun Microsystems (Now owned by Oracle Corp.). General purpose computer language that is object oriented and class based. Designed to have a few implementation dependencies as possible. (Write once run anywhere type program- WORA) -
JavaScript
Abbreviation- JS. Developed by Brendan Eich. High level computer programming language. Also characterized as a weakly typed language and dynamic. One of the three core technologies involved in the WWW (World Wide Web -
PHP
Server side scripting language. It was designed for web development but can also be used as a general purpose computer programming language. Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf -
ADA
developed by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. It is a complex computer coding extended from Pascal and others. It improves safety in coding and uses a compiler to find errors. Ada is an international standard. -
C++
(stable release 2017). Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is a general purpose computer language. It is object-orientated and uses low level memory manipulation.