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Plankakul
Year: 1943-1945
Person: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Programming language designed for engineering purposes.
Letters: Means “Plan Calculus” in German -
MATH-MATIC
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
Developed in 1947 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. This programming language is mainly used to command and draw line graphics. It utilizes turtles to carry out commands. 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 -
ML
Year: Early 1970s
Person: Robert Milner
Purpose: Conceived to develop proof tactics in LCF theorem prover.
Letters: ML stand for metalanguage -
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 -
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 -
Delpi
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.