History of Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse to complete mathematical equations and systems. The name translates to Plan Calculus.
  • Fortran

    Developed by IBM to complete scientific and engineering applications. Is a combination of Formula Translation
  • MATH-MATIC

    Written by Charles Katz and Grace Hopper to run business-oriented language on the UNIVAC and UNIVAC II. Real name is AT-3
  • Lisp

    Developed by MIT and used in the development of AI. Stands for List Processing.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM to for the minicomputer operating system. Stands for Report Program Generator
  • COBOL

    Developed by CODASYL for business and administrative work. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language.
  • BASIC

    Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth for a basic software for non tech students. Stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon for use in graphics design with beginners.
  • B

    Developed by Bell Labs for system and language software.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth for efficient data structuring. Named in honor of physicist Blaise Pascal
  • C

    Developed by Bell labs as a basic and general programming language. It works well with machine instructions.
  • ML

    Developed by the University of Edinburgh for use in pattern matching and functional programming. Stands for Meta Language.
  • SQL

    Designed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce for use in data management and structures. Stands for Structured Query Language.
  • ADA

    A project sponsored by the United States Department of defense for use object oriented programming. It is named for Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for use in object-oriented and low-level memory functions. Name stands for C programming with Classes
  • Python

    Created by Guido von Rossum as an object-oriented program which provided users with easy to decipher code. Named after comedy group Monty Python
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft for use with beginner coders. Can be used to write entire applications by users. Named for BASIC, the program it is based in.
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf for use in web development. Stands for Hypertext preprocessor.
  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland for rapid application implication and object-oriented programming. Named in reference to the Oracle of Delphi.
  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling and intended for programmers to write one code and run it in multiple systems. Named for Java as in coffee.
  • Javascript

    JavaScript was developed by Netscape for the development of the World Wide Web.