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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse created Plankalkul in the 40s. It was the first programming language designed for computers. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was written by a team led by Charles Katz. MATH-MATIC was a fancy marketing name for the Algebraic Translator 3) compiler. -
Fortran
This language was the world's FIRST high level programming language. It was created by John Backus who worked in a team at IBM in the late 50s. It was considered to be a "general purpose" language. -
Lisp
The second oldest high level programming language, it was developed by John McCarthy. Lisp ended up being commonly used for artificial intelligence. -
COBOL
COBOL is one of the first programming languages created. COBOL stands for COmmon, Business-Oriented Language. Programs written in COBOL could be run on multiple computers. It was very popular to use for the government and top businesses. -
RPG
This programming language was created for punch card machines. RPG stand for Report Program Generator. It was developed by IBM. -
BASIC
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the programming language BASIC in 1964. BASIC is an acronym. It stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is one of the earliest computer languages. -
Logo
Logo, which is a dialect of Lisp, was designed by 3 main people: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It is an easy to learn and educational language. -
B
Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie created the programming language B in 1970. It was made for non-numeric applications. The B programming language is almost "extinct" because it is not as efficient as others. -
Pascal
Niklaus Wirth was the creator of Pascal. It was created to teach structured programming. In the 70s and 80s it was the most commonly used programming languages. It got its name from the mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
C
Dennis Ritchie wrote this language. The C programming language is commonly used in UNIX systems. C was created "through" the B language, as it is a more improved version that has multiple data types. -
ML
ML stands for "Meta Language". It is a characterization of Lisp and was designed by Robin Milner. -
SQL
SQl stands for Structured Query Language. It stores and manipulates data. It was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM. -
ADA
ADA was originally developed in the early 1980s by Dr. Jean Ichbiah and his team in France. Today, it is used for programming long-lived applications. ADA isn't an acronym, but was named after a mathematician named Augusta Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup created C++ at the same place B and C were created. C++ was based off of the language C. Although it was released in 1985 as a commercial produced, it had been worked on since the late 70s. The whole process was many years. -
Python
Python was created by Guido van Rossum. Python looks good and is easy to read. It is a powerful and VERY commonly used programming language. -
Java
James Gosling was the head writer of Java, but it was him and his team (which was called the Green Team) that ultimately designed it. It was originally for appliances but moved onto desktop computers. -
Visual Basic
Basic allows users to create simple and complex applications. Basic was developed by Microsoft. Basic is still commonly taught today. -
PHP
PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is a scripting language that was designed for web development. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, it is a reverse acronym. -
Delphi
Delphi uses the language Pascal and it first made an appearance in 1995. The main person behind the creation of Delphi was Anders Hejlsberg. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich created Javascript. At the time the internet needed two languages : Java and some sort of script. So Eich was hired to develop the script. Since the syntax had to be similar to Java's it was based directly of Java therefore "Javascript".
