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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse
Means Formal system of planning
Used for engineering -
Fortran
Created by John Backus
Used for solving math equations -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Grace Hopper
Used for math
Different name was AT-3 or the algebraic translator -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy
Used for easily manipulating data strings
Stands for List Processing -
RPG
Created by IBM
Was the Report Program Generator which was an alternative for the punch card machine. -
COBOL
Created by Dr. Grace Murray Hopper
Means Common Business-Oriented Language
Created to help standardize computer languages
Used for businesses, very user friendly -
BASIC
Beginners all purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Made to be easy to learn and use
Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig
Original uses were for artificial intelligence, mathematical logic and developmental psychology -
B
Made by bell labs in 1969
Used for non-numeric situations, like systems -
ML
Created by Robin Milner
Used to solve math theories
Means Meta-Language -
SQL
Created by Raymond Boyce
Used for shared pools of data
Means Structured Query Language -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Used for general purposes -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie
Used for general purposes -
ADA
Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France.
Uses-missile control to payroll processing to air traffic control, pretty much anything -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum
Used for general purposes -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft
Was the COM programming model -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
Used for personal reasons
Now used for server communication
Stood for Personal Home Page
Now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich
Used for a web browser -
Delphi
Created by Anders Hejlsberg
Used for Linux, and Windows.
Created with creating objects in mind -
Java
Created by James Gosling
Created for hand held devices -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup
Used for general purposes, mostly for program organization.
Based off of C