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Plankalkul
Invented by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Translated to "Plan Calculus." -
MATH-MATIC
Invented by Charles Katz for the UNIVAC I and II. -
FORTRAN
Invented by John Backus for simulating physical systems. Shorthand for "FORmula TRANslator." -
Lisp
Invented by John McCarthy for programming artificial intelligence. -
COBOL
Invented by Grace Hopper for a user-friendly program. Stands for "Common Business-Oriented Language." -
RPG
Invented by IBM for punched card machines. Stands for "Report Program Generator." -
BASIC
Invented by Thomas Kurtz for a computer to accept input and provide output. Stands for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." -
Logo
Invented by Seymour Papert for graphic development. -
B
Invented by Ken Thompson for use in non-numeric coding and system software. -
Pascal
Invented by Niklaus Wirth for procedural programming. -
SQL
Invented by IBM for database communication. -
C
Invented by Dennis Ritchie to aid in the development of the UNIX OS at Bell Labs. -
ML
Invented by Robin Milner for theorem solving. Stands for "Meta Language." -
C++
Invented by Bjarne Stroustrup as a more user-friendly version of the C language. -
ADA
Invented by Jean Ichbiah for program safety. -
Python
Invented by Guido Van Rossum for data analysis and visualization. -
Visual Basic
Invented by Alan Cooper for allowing development of graphical user interfaces. -
Java
Invented by James Gosling for handheld devices. -
Javascript
Invented by Brendan Eich for client-side scripting. -
PHP
Invented by Rasmus Lerdorf for developing web applications. -
Delphi
Invented by Anders Hejlsberg for application development.