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Plankalkul
Made by Konrad Zuse
Purpose is to be used for engineering problems -
Fortran
Stands for Formula Translating System
Made by John Backus and IBM
"Made for numeric and scientific computing" -
MATH-MATIC
Also known as AT-3
Made by Charles Katz and the group he lead
Purpose is to be used by the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC 11 -
Lisp
Made by John McCarthy
Purpose was to be "a practical mathematical notation for computer programs" -
RPG
Name stands for Report Program Generator
Made by IBM
Purpose is to be used for "business applications" -
COBOL
Name stands for Common Business-Oriented Language
Developed by Conference on Data Systems Language
Purpose is to be used by bussinesses for finance -
BASIC
Name stands for Begginer's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Was made to let students who weren't into math or science fields learn programming -
LOGO
Made by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
Purpose is to be an educational math program -
B
Made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Designed to be used for system and language software -
PASCAL
Made by Niklaus Wirth
Purpose was "to teach students structured programming" -
ML
Also known as Meta Language
Made by Robin Milner
Purpose is to be used for mathametic and scientific calculations -
C
Made by Dennis Ritchie
Purpose was to "reimplement Unix system" -
SQL
Name stands for Structured Query Language
Made by Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose is "to manage and stream data in a relation data stream management system" -
C++
Made by Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose is to be an easy tool for progammers to make programs -
ADA
Named after Ada Lovelace
Designed by Jean Ichbiah
Purpose is "to improve saftey and maintainability of programs" -
Python
Made by Guido Van Rossum
Purpose was that "programmers could write concepts with fewer lines of code" -
Visual Basic
Made by Microsoft
Purpose is to "let progammers easily make applications" -
Delphi
Name is a reference to the Oracle of Delphi
Made by Borland
Helps make software for "desktops , internet, console and mobile applications" -
Java
Made by James Gosling
Primary purpose is to make programs and be able to "run on all platforms" -
Javascript
Also known as ECMA script
Made by Brendan Eich
Purpose is to be used in web browsers , PDFs and to allow manipulation of memory -
PHP
Name stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
Made by Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose is for web development