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Ada
Worked on in the 70s-80s for the American DoD. Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah. A standardized language used for financials to air traffic and military control, commercially and militarily. -
Plankalkül
Designed by Konrad Zuse, for engineering purposes for computers. -
Fortran
Developed by IBM by John Backus for scientific, numeric, and engineering applications. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand as a business-oriented language with a float structure and algebraic style expressions. -
Lisp/LISP
Designed by John McCarthy for mathematical computational uses, influenced by lambda calculus. -
COBOL
Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) designed by Grace Hopper and others, for business and financial use and more, commercially or within the government. Part of a US DoD effort. -
RPG
Designed by IBM for business application. -
BASIC
Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC), designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, for ease of use so other fields of work could use it. -
LOGO
Within the Lisp family, designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. The name is derived from the Greek word logos (thought). The system created drawn line vector graphics. It is used in teaching. -
B
Derived from "BCPL", and developed by Bell Labs from Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Designed for system and language software, specifically the Multics project. -
Pascal
Named after Blaise Pascal, it was developed by Niklaus Wirth as a teaching language to encourage structured programming. -
C
Developed by Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie, succeeding programming language B. Very popular language used by application software, embedded and operating systems, and more. -
ML
Meta Language, designed by Robin Milner and others, used as a research component to develop other languages. -
SQL
Structured Query Language (SQL), designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce (IBM). It is used for programming and managing data. -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup as a more efficient and flexible language than C. Popular for resource and performance-critical software like video games, telephones, or websurfing. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum, allows for clear and logical code with a very wide application range. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, influenced by BASIC, it is easy to learn and use. It can have simple and complex uses, like statistical applications. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland, it is a rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling, created to be able to have wide use of application and easy distribution. Some examples include web pages, data processing, and mobile/desktop apps. -
Javascript (JS)
Designed by a team led by Brendan Eich, it is a core language of the internet that enables interaction and website applications. -
PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, for web development.