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Plankalkul Program
Konrad Zuse
designed for engineering purposes
German meaning “Plan Calculus” -
Fortran Program
John Backus
a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
previously FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC Program
Charles Katz
one of the earliest programming languages
it was a marketing name -
LISP Program
John McCarthy
originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
"LISt Processing" -
COBOL Program
Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
designed for the idea of a portable programming language that was contracted by, once again, the DoD.
common business-oriented language -
RPG Program
IBM
one of the original programs, used to complete its specific program loop -
BASIC Program
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College
created to enable students in fields other than science and math to use computers
acronym of Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO Program
Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
created as a multi-paradigm adaptation of LISP
derived from the Greek word for word or thought. -
B Program
Bell Labs
invented for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications such as system and language software. -
PASCAL Program
Niklaus Wirth
as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices
named after Blaise Pascal -
C Program
Dennis Ritchie
general purpose program -
ML Program
Robin Milner
it was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
stands for metalanguage -
SQL Program
Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
designed for managing data held in a relational database management system
Structured Query Language -
ADA Program
Developed by a team of researchers led by Jean Ichbiah and CII Honeywell Bull, under contract with the U.S. DoD.
designed for the superseding of all of the previous programming languages used by the Department of Defense.
Named after Ada Lovelace, the first credited programmer. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup
designed for system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems -
Python Program
Guido Van Rossum
general purpose high level programming language used for constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale
named after programmer’s love of Monty Python. -
Visual Basic Program
Microsoft
intended for easy learning use, event-driven programming language -
Delphi Program
Danny Thorpe, Borland & Embarcadero Technologies
integrated development environment for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
Codename reference to the Oracle of Delphi, Pythia. -
Java Program
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
a general purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented and concurrent as well as being specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
Named after Java Coffee -
Javascript Program
Brendan Eich
along beside HTML and CSS, it is the most important script in the working of the World Wide Web, being as it is employed by the majority of websites of modern era
it was a marketing ploy off of the name of Java. -
PHP Program
Rasmus Lerdorf
designed for web developing
originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which is a recursive backronym.