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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse used as a formal way of planning. -
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Timeline
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Fortran
Created by John Backus used for numeric and scientific computation. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Charles Katz used as an improvement to Fortran. -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy and is used to create artificial intelligence (AI). -
Cobol
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. It stands for Common Business Oriented Language and is used for businesses. -
RPG
Stands for Report Program Generator created by IBM and is used on IBM's operating system. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It allowed everybody to use computers, not just mathematics and computing students. -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzerg and is used for graphics from lines. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The name is derived from BCPL and is used for recursive and non-numeric applications. -
Pascal
Created by Niklaus Wirth and is used to encourage good programming practices. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie and is used to program applications and operating systems. -
ML
By Robin Milner to develop proofs. Also known as Metalanguage. -
SQL
By Donald Chamberlain; stands for Structured Query Language and is used for managing data. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah and is an acronym for Ada Lovelace. The primary focus of the language is to improve safety and maintainability. -
C++
Created by Byorne Stroustrup and is used for systems programming and is an extension of C. -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum and is used for readability and the ability to code in fewer lines than other programming languages. -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft to develop applications. -
Java
Created by James Gosling and is used for application developers to "write once, run everywhere". -
Javascript
By Brendan Eich for web browsers. -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf used as hypertext preprocessor and generates webpages and images. -
Delphi
Created by Embarcadero Technologies and is used for applications for mobile, web, and graphical.