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Plankalkul
Created by Conrad Zuse
Used for Mathmatics
Plankalkul is Plan Calculus in German -
Fortran
Created by John Backus
Primary use is to compute mathematics and scientific formulas
Fortran is short for Formula Translation -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Remington Rand
Used for mathmatics by students
MATH-MATIC is not an acronym -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy
Used for mathmatical notation
Lisp is not an acryonm -
COBOL
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
Primary use was for business
COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language -
RPG
Created by IBM
Used for business applications
RPG stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
Intended to allow everyone to create software for PCs
BASIC stands for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
Used for turtle graphics
Logo is not short for anything -
B
Created by ken Thompson
Use for non numeric machine independent applications
B may be a contraction of BCPL -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Used for efficient structured programing
PASCAL is named for Blaise Pascal -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie
Used to reimpliment Unix
The letters in the name do not stand for anything -
ML
Created by Robin Milner
Used for mathematics and proofs
ML stands for MetaLanguage -
SQL
Designed by Donald Chamberlain and Raymond Boyce
Used for mathmatics
SQL stands for Structured Query Language -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah
Primary use was to reduce the number of independent coding languges within the Deparment of Defense
ADA stands for Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup
Primary use was for system programming
C++ does not mean something -
Python
Created by Guido Van Rossum
Used as a high level general purpose language
Python is named after Monty Python -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft
Used for creation of applications
Visual basic does not have an acronymn -
Java
Created by James Gosling
Created to be used as a general purpose coding languge
Java is not an acronym for anything -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich
Used primarliy for websites
Javascript is not an acronym for anything -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
Used to help create servers
PHP stands for hyper text pre processor -
Delphi
Created by Borland
Used for applications across most platforms
Delphi does not stand for anything