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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.