Module One Lesson Two Assignment

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  • Plankalkul 1

    Year: 1943-1945
    Person: Konrad Zuse
    Purpose: Programming language designed for engineering purposes.
    Letters: Means “Plan Calculus” in German

  • MATH-MATIC 2

    Year: 1947
    Person: Charles Katz
    Purpose: Developed as an improvement to Fortran. It carries out math based programs.
    Letters: Does not stand for anything.

  • LOGO 3

    Year:1947
    People: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
    Purpose: This programming language is mainly used to command and draw line graphics. It utilizes turtles to carry out commands.
    Letters: Logo doesn’t stand for anything.

  • FORTRAN

    Year: 1957
    People: John Backus
    Purpose: It was designed for particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
    Letters: Does not stand for anything

  • Lisp

    Year: 1958
    People: Alonzo Church
    Purpose: created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programmers. It was a pioneer of computer science and math based programming languages.
    Letters: LISt Processor

  • COBOL

    Year: 1959
    People: Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney
    Purpose: It was designed for business, finance, and administrative applications that worked on large scale
    Letters: Common Business Oriented Language

  • RPG

    Years: 1959
    Person: Developed by IBM
    Purpose: programming language used for business applications and was developed for IBM OS.
    Letters: does not stand for anything

  • BASIC

    Year: 1964
    People: John George Kemeny,Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
    Purpose: Its purpose was to introduce people to programming and to encourage wide interest due to its simplicity
    Letters: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • B

    Year: 1969
    People: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose: It was designed to be non-numeric applications such as system programming
    Letters: B is not stand for anything

  • PASCAL

    Year: Designed in 1969. Published in 1970
    Person: Niklaus Wirth
    Purpose: Encourages good programmers to use structured programming and data structuring. Designed for object oriented programming.
    Letters: AKA Object-PASCAL

  • ML

    Year: Early 1970s
    Person: Robert Milner
    Purpose: Conceived to develop proof tactics in LCF theorem prover.
    Letters: ML stand for metalanguage

  • C

    Year: 1972
    People: Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose: It was designed for Unix based systems and provided low-level access to memory, as well as to encourage cross platform programming
    Letters: C simply refers to an advancement from the language “B”

  • SQL

    Year: 1974
    Person: Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce
    Purpose: special purpose programming language designed for managing data in a relational management database system.
    Letters: Structured Query Language

  • ADA

    Year: 1980
    People: Jean Ichbiah, Tucker Taft
    Purpose: Object oriented language intended to be used for large, long-lived applications that focused on reliability and efficiency
    Letters: ADA is not an acronym

  • C++

    Year: 1983
    People: Bjarne Stroustrup
    Purpose: Acted as an extension to C, and was intended to improve upon C and provide capabilities for object oriented programming
    Letters: C++ refers to improvement upon C

  • Python

    Year: 1991
    Person: Guido van Rossum
    Purpose: general programming language that emphasizes readability and allows codes to be simplified.

    Letters: does not stand for anything

  • Visual Basics

    Year: 1991
    Person: Microsoft
    Purpose: programming language that is intended for easy use and as a training programing language.
    Letters: does not stand for anything.

  • PHP

    Year: 1994
    Person: Rasmus Lerdorf
    Purpose: general programming language generally used for webpage design.
    Letter: Stands for Personal Home Page

  • Delphi

    Year: 1995
    People: Borland
    Purpose: It was designed to be an object-oriented, visual programming approach to application development.
    Letters: Based on ancient Greek landmark of the same name

  • Java

    Year: 1995
    People: James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
    Purpose: It was intended to be a general-purpose language that runs on one platform without having to be recompiled on another. Has overall high ease of access
    Letters: Based on java coffee

  • Javascript

    Year: 1995
    People: Brendan Eich
    Purpose: designed to be a simple, versatile and effective language that can be used to extend functionality in websites
    Letters: Does not mean anything.