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Plankalkul
By Konrad Zuse; He invented the first programmable computer; "Plan Calculus" -
Fortran
John Backus; Designed for scientific and engineering applications; "The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System" -
MATH-MATIC
Charles Katz; Intended as an improvement over Fortran -
Lisp
John McCarthy; created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs;"List Processor" -
COBOL
Grace Hopper; Often used for business and administrative purposes; "Common Business-Oriented Language" -
RPG
IBM; built for heavyweight business applications; "Report Program Generator" -
BASIC
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtzas; intended to be a computer language to enable students to use computers other than science and math; "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon; Used for functional programming; "Language of Graphics Oriented" -
B
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson; Main purpose was system development, not numeric computations -
SQL
Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce; Designed to manipulate and retrieve data; "Structured Query Language" -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth; Was made to teach students structured programming -
ML
Robin Milner; Used heavily in programming language research; "Meta Language" -
C
Dennis Ritchie; Designed for implementing system software -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup; Designed for system programming -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah; Designed to be a general-purpose language for everything from business applications to rocket guidance systems -
Python
Guido van Rossum; used to do things from testing microchips at Intel, to powering Instagram, to building video games with the PyGame library -
Visual Basic
Alan Cooper; It was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development of graphical user interface -
Delphi
Anders Hejlsberg; Used to build applications for Windows systems; "Dectector with Lepton, Photon, and Hadron Identificaiton -
Java
James Gosling; Designed for interactive television -
JavaScript
Brendan Eich; used by web browsers to create a dynamic and interactive experience for the user. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf; used to develop Static websites or Dynamic websites or Web applications; "Hypertext Pre-Processor"