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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse
designed for engineering purposes -
MATH-MATIC
Team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus
Particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
Acronym for formula translator, -
COBOL
It is particularly popular for business applications that run on large computers.
Acronym for common business oriented language. -
Lisp
Developed in the early 1960s by John McCarthy at MIT.
Especially popular for artificial intelligence applications.
Acronym for list processor -
BASIC
Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
Used for a wide range of business applications
Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
RPG
developed by IBM
for developing business applications, especially generating reports from data.
Short for Report Program Generator -
LOGO
Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a turtle -
B
It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
Some guess that they were created for the auto-increment and auto-decrement address modes of the DEC PDP-11. This is historically impossible as there was no PDP-11 at the time that B was developed. -
PASCAL
developed by Niklaus Wirth
The nature of the language forces programmers to design programs methodically and carefully. For this reason, it is a popular teaching language. -
C
C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie
It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support. Therefore, C was useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, for example in system programming. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner and others
Develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover (whose language, pplambda, a combination of the first-order predicate calculus and the simply-typed polymorphic lambda calculus, had ML as its metalanguage) -
SQL
designed by an IBM research center
database management systems running on minicomputers and mainframes
Abbreviation of structured query language -
ADA
Augusta Ada Byron created this language
Developed for everything from business applications to rocket guidance systems.
ADA is named after the creator -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C. -
Visual Basic
developed by Microsoft.
Visual Basic nevertheless has an object-oriented philosophy -
Python
developed by Guido van Rossum
Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms. -
Java
Developed by Sun Microsystems a small team of engineers, known as the Green Team
Designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes. Oak was unsuccessful, so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the burgeoning World Wide Web. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf.
used to create dynamic Web pages.
Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor -
Delphi
Developed by Borland International, Inc.
Delphi is based on Pascal. -
javascript
Developed by Netscape
Enable Web authors to design interactive sites.