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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering use. -
Fortran
Fortran (which comes from Formula Translating System) was designed by IBM as an all purpose programming language. -
Lisp
John McCarthy developed Lisp while at MIT for mathmatical notation for computer programs. -
COBOL
COBOL was designed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) for business use. -
RPG
Report Program Generator (RPG) was developed by IBM for business applications. -
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC)
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC was created so people other than math and science students could use computers. -
LOGO
LOGO was designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon as an educational programming language. -
B
B was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for system and language software. -
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C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie to impliment the Unix operating system -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth as a procedural and structured programming language. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner as a general purpose programming language. ML comes from Metalanguage. -
SQL
Structure Query Language (SQL) was developed by IBM for managing data held in a relational database management system. -
ADA
ADA was created by a group called the High Order Language Working Group for the Department of Defense; the latter was concerned about the number of outdated programming languages already being used and requested a new one. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ as a general purpose programming language geared toward system programming. -
Delphi
Object oriented Pascal -
Python
Guido van Rossum designed Python as a general purpose programming language. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is a programming language designed by Microsoft designed to be easy to learn and use. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf desgined Personal Home Page (PHP) as a web development language. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling, Java was designed to be able to run on multiple platforms, so that the programmer can "Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA), a slogan used by the company Gosling worked for, Sun Microsystems. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich for web developers.