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Plankalkul
created by Konrad Zuse. Concept published in 1948, but dated back to 1943. Designed for engineering purposes. -
MATH-MATIC
created by a team led by Charles Katz. Mainly used for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II -
Fortran
First implementation of the Fortran concept. Created by John Backus and IBM. General purpose is to interact with numeric and scientific computing. -
LISP
created by John McCarthy. Includes a distinctive polish prefix notation. -
RPG
created by IBM. Later versions of RPG only available on IBM machines with certain operating systems. Used to replicate punched card processing. -
COBOL (61)
This is the first implementation of COBOL. Created by The CODASYL Committee. Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. -
BASIC
created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz; BASIC means Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. This programming language influenced Microsoft's Visual Basic. -
LOGO
created by Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig. Used a little robot called a "turtle." Educational programming language. -
B
created by Ken Thompson; deprived from BCPL. -
C
created by Dennis Ritchie. Most common programming language in history. Other languages, namely C++, D, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, have borrowed many pieces of C. -
PASCAL
created by Niklaus Wirth; uses data structuring and structured programming. Named after the French Philospher Blaise Pascal. -
ML
created by Robin Milner. stands for Meta Language. Used to prove expressions didn't need annotations to read. -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. First created using algebra and a form of calculus. Most SQL coding is now used in databases to receive and send out data to any program calling it. -
ADA
created by Jean Ichbiah, then later taken up by Tucker Taft. -
C++
created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Gave influence to newer languages such as Java and C#. -
Visual Basic
created by our truly, Microsoft. Derived from BASIC, Visual Basic enhances the RAD tools and lets users use databases and ActiveX content controls. -
Delphi
created by Borland. First created as a RAD (rapid application devlopment) tool for Windows. -
Java
created by James Gosling. General purpose language that is class based, object oriented, and designed to have few dependencies. -
JavaScript
created by Brendan Eich. One of the three major World Wide Web content production tools. Most browsers come with this built in. -
PHP
created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed for server-side scriping and web servers. Can be mixed with HTML. -
Python
created by Guido van Rossum. Intended to be used to read code easier then Java or C++, especially of those in bigger or smaller programs.