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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was made by Konrad Zuse.
Plankalkul was the first high-level (non-von Neumann) programming language to be designed for a computer.
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Fortran
Fortran was made by John Backus.
Fortran is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Fortran is derived from Formula Translation. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was made by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper.
MATH-MATIC provided algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic, and arrays.
MATH-MATIC is a marketing name for AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3). -
Lisp
Lisp was made by John McCarthy.
Lisp is the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. It was originally a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
Lisp derives from LISt Processor. -
COBOL
COBOL was made by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney.
COBOL is a computer programming language designed for business use.
COBOL stands for common business-oriented language. -
RPG
RPG was made by IBM.
RPG is a high-level programming language for business applications.
RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
BASIC was originally made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
BASIC was made as a easy to learn, basic high level programing language.
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
LOGO was made by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
LOGO is an educational programming language.
LOGO is not an acronym. It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" -
B
B was made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
B was made for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
B's name does not mean anything. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was made by Niklaus Wirth.
PASCAL was made to intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
PASCAL is named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal. -
C
C was made by Dennis Ritchie.
C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language.
C does not mean anything as a name. -
ML
ML was made by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh.
ML is a general-purpose functional programming language.
ML is a acronym for Meta Language. -
SQL
SQL was made by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
SQL is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system , or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.
SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Made by a team led by Jean Ichbiah for the US DOD.
ADA improves code safety and maintainability, it is used in realtime computer control.
ADA is named after Ada Lovelace who has been credited with being the first computer programmer. -
C++
C++ was made by Bjarne Stroustrup.
C++ is a general-purpose programming language.
C++'s name shows it is a modernized version of C, which it took many ideas and influence from. -
Python
Python was made by Guido van Rossum.
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
Python's name is derived from the British comedy group Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was made by Microsoft.
Visual Basic enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
Visual Basic shares similarity with the name of Basic because it derives most of its intended purpose from Basic. -
Delphi
Delphi was made by Embarcadero Technologies.
Delphi is an integrated development environment for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.
Delphi is also know as Embarcadero Delphi. -
Java
Java was made by James Gosling.
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
Java means nothing really, just represents a cup of coffee. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was made by Brendan Eich.
JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based, multi-paradigm, and interpreted programming language.
JavaScript does not really mean anything. -
PHP
PHP was made by Rasmus Lerdorf.
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.