Programming 1 languages history

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  • Plankalkul

    Designed for engineering purposes. Created by Konrad Zuse. Planklalkul means formal system for planning.

  • Fortran

    Invented by IBM. Got its name from Formula translation. General purpose suited for numeric and scientific computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Used for programming the UNIVAC I and II. Created by a team led by Charles Kats under Grace Hopper. Got its name for marketing originally called Algebraic Translator 3.

  • COBOL

    Stands for Common Business Oriented Language.used in admin systems, business, finance and governments. Created by Conference on Data Systems Languages.

  • RPG

    RPG is IBM proprietary language on OS/400 systems. Made by IBM. The name stands for Report Program Generator

  • BASIC

    Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.Easy to learn language used by small business owners hobbyists an professionals/

  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy. Is used a lot today best known for general purpose favored for AI research. Got its name from list programming.

  • LOGO

    Created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. used for turtle graphics and designed to carry out the drawing function. Got its name from logos which means thought in Greek.

  • B

    Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Derived from BCPL which is where the name came from. Recursive non-numeric machine dependent language

  • C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie. Used for implementing operating systems and made for portability. The name was influenced by B.

  • ML

    It's a general purpose language that automatically assigns types of expressions. Created by Robin Milner. ML stands for Meta Language.

  • SQL

    Created by IBM to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM quasi relation database and management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    Made by Jean Ichbiah, named after a love countess Augustus Ada. It's a high level, statistical, imperative language

  • C++

    Made by Bjarne Stroustrup. The name is because C++ is an extension of C. C++ is object-oriented program.

  • PASCAL

    Object oriented programming language. Named after french mathematician Blaise Pascal. made by Niklaus Wirth.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a third generation language made by Microsoft.Visual Basic is derived from BASIC which is where the name came from.

  • Python

    The name came from the comedy Monty Python. High level programming language for general purpose. made by Guido van Rossum.

  • PHP

    Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. General purpose language for server-side web development. PHP stands for Personal Home Page.

  • Delphi

    Made by Ander Hejlsberg. Made for several platforms and many applications. The name was originally used as a code name and it stuck.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling. Object oriented program language, used to develop on all platform applications. The name came from java coffee which came from green which came from oak.

  • Javascript

    Name came from a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun. Used as client side language and is written into an HTML page. It was created by Eich.