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Plankalkul
The name means plan calculus in german. It was developed by Konrad Zuse for high level engineering uses. -
Fortran
FORmula TRANslating systemwas developed by John Backers and used for numeric and and scientific computations. -
Math-matic
Created by Sperry Rand as a commericial compiler for UNIVAC I -
Lisp
Stands for Locator/identifier Separation Protocol. Created bySteve Russel and Timothy Hart to be used as a mathematical notation for programs and AI development -
COBL
Stands for Common Business Oriented Language. Developed by Howard Bromberg to be used in business finance and administrative systems. -
RGB
Stands for Report Program Generator. Developed by IBM to replicate punched card processing. -
BASIC
Stands for Begginer's All-purpose Symbolistic Instruction Code. Intended to give those who wanted to develop software easy access to programming. Developed by John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz. -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig as an educational coding language. -
B
Derived from BCPL and intended to abbrieviate it to fit into the memory capacity of microcomputers at the time. Developed by Ken thompson and Dennis Ritchie -
PASCAL
Named for the philosopher Blaise Pascal and developed by Nikolaus Virth and intended to teach students structured programming. -
C
Stands for Cross-platform. Designed to influence cross- platform programming. Developed by Dennis Ritchie. -
ML
Short for metalanguage designed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
SQL
Structured Query Language was created by ISO/EEC adn used for relational database management systems. -
ADA
Named for Ada Lovelace, intended to unify the DoD's coding languages. Now used in large software development. Developed by Jean Ichbach and later Tucker Taft -
C++
An extension of C designed by Biarne Stroustrup to be highly efficient and flexible. -
Python
Named after the movie character Monty Python this language was developed by Guido Van Rossum to express code in the fewest lines possible. -
Visual Basic
Derived from basic and developed by microsoft as an easy to use and learn language for application development. -
Delphi
Developed by Embarcadero Technologies for rapid application development. -
Java
Named after a type of coffee this software was developed by James Gosling and intended to give simple code designed to run on any computer architecture. -
Javascript
Having little common with Java, Brenden Eich created this code to create web applications in a variant of C. -
PHP
Stands for Personal Home Page developed by Remus Lerdorf and used to build simple dynamic web applications.