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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse designed Plankalkul as the first language for programming computers. It was designed to make the creation of programs and applications easier to make on the first computers. -
Fortran
John Backus created FORmula TRANslation for use in making mathematical and scientific programs. -
MATH-MATIC
The Rand Corporation derived MATH-MATIC from A-0 as a better version of fortran for UNIVAC computers. -
Lisp
John McCarthy designed Lisp to "solve large, complex, and challenging problems in industry and research". -
COBOL
A government-sponsored group of programmers made COBOL to "run on more than one manufacturer's computer". -
Basic
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz created the 'Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic instruction Code' to teach beginners the basics of coding -
RPG
IBM made RPGfor use as "high level database access and text generation for mainframe MIS environments". -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert adapted LOGO from Lisp to be easier to read, along with being "good at handling lists, files, and I/O". -
B
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created B in association with Bell Labs. It was easier to read and write in B than in Assembly languages. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth designed Pascal to be a better version of Algol. -
C
Dennis M. Ritchie created C by taking ideas from B and Multics. It could easily replace the coding for programs originally coded in Assembly language. -
ML
Robin Milner created the Meta Language for a theorm prover. -
SQL
Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce made the Structured Query Language as a database management system. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup made C++ as an Object Oriented Programming version of C. The name, C++, is supposed to be incrementing values on the original language, C. -
ADA
Dr. Jean Ichbiah created ADA for "large, long-lasting applications and embedded systems". -
Python
Guido van Rossum designed Python to be a higher level language for coding, a language that would be easy for beginners. -
Visual Basic
Alan Cooper developed Visual Basic for Microsoft. It was based off of Ruby and Basic, and enables "rapid application development of graphical user interfaces". -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf made the Personal Home Page tools to monitor traffic on his home page.He then built on it to create a program that could aid in the " creation of dynamic web pages". -
Delphi
Anders Hejlsberg, working for Borland, made Delphi to turn "Pascal into an Object Oriented Application Development language". -
Java
James Gosling and "The Green Team" (who worked for Sun) built Java for the "union of digital consumer devices and computers". -
Javascript
Brendan Eich, working for Netscape (now Mozilla), made javascript for use in graphics and interactive web pages on the internet.