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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Kanrad Zuse for engineering purposes including algebraic statements and subroutines. Plankalkul is German for Plan Calculus. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was written by a team led by Charlz Katz under direction of Grace Hopper. MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz and was the early programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. -
Fortran
Fortran was developed by Jon Backus and IBM. Fortran is primarily used for numeric computation and scientific computing. Fortran is an abbreviation for Formula Translation. -
Lisp
Lisp by John McCarthy. Used for artificial intelligence programming. Acronym for List Processing -
COBOL
COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL was developed by Howard Bromberg. Acronym is “Common business-oriented language ̈ -
RPG
RPG was developed by IBM for business applications on machines using punch cards. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is a high-level programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964 which was 55 years ago. BASIC was designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC is mainly used in business applications. -
LOGO
LOGO Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Used for functional programming for generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor. Logo has no acronym -
B
B was developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B programming language is primarily used for non-numeric applications such as system programming. These involve complex logical decision-making and processing of integers. B has no acronym. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth Pascal was a highly influential language for structured and data programming. Pascal was named in honor of the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
C
C was designed by Dennis Ritchie. C came after B programming language. Primary use is for system programming like operating system or compiler development. -
ML
ML was by Robin Milner and it is commonly used for client/ server programs and financial systems. ML stands for meta language. -
SQL
SQL was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM. SQL was primarily used for managing data and stream processing. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It supports object-oriented and generic programming. It is an extension to C programming language. -
ADA
A high-level programming language that first appeared 39 years ago. ADA was developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at Cll-Honeywell-Bull in France. ADA is used in a wide variety of applications like Air Traffic Control, Aviation, Rail Transportation, and missile control. ADA was named after Ada Byron/Lovelace, who was the first computer programmer. -
Python
Python was developed by Guido Van Rossum as a high-level programming language made to emphasize code readability. Its syntax allows programmers to use fewer lines of code to convey their ideas. Python has no acronym -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn with a GUI and access to databases including objects and forms. -
Delphi
Delphi was primarily used to build Windows applications and desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. Delphi has no acronym. -
PHP
PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf as a server-side scripting language used mainly for web development but can also be used as a general-purpose programming language. It originally PHP stood for Personal Home Page but now it means Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Java
Java was designed for James Gosling. Object-oriented programming model and creates applications on computers. Java has no acronym. -
Javascript
Javascript was designed by Brendan Eich. Used in web pages to create special effects. No acronym