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Plankalkul
Developer: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: It was designed for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Developer: John Backus
Purpose: It is a general-purpose language that is used especially for numeric copmutation and scientific computing.
Acronym: Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
Developer: Charles Katz
Purpose: It was used as an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. It was intended as an improvement over Fortran. -
Lisp
Developer: John McCarthy
Purpose: It was created as a practical mathematical notationfor computer programs. -
RPG
Developer: IBM
Purpose: It was used for business applications but its later versions are only available on IBM i or OS/400 based systems.
Acronym: Report Program Generator -
COBOL
Developer: Grace Hopper
Purpose: It is designed for developing business, typically file-oriented, applications.
Acronym: COmoon Business Oriented Language -
BASIC
Developer: John George Kemeny & Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Purpose: It was created for general-purpose and it's design emphasizes ease of use.
Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Developer: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzieg, Seymour Papert & Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: It was originally created to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp and it was later used for "turtle graphics". This was used to make graphics. -
B
Developer: Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: It was created for primarily non-numeric applications like system programming. -
PASCAL
Developer: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: It was made to teach students structured programming. -
SQL
Developer: Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: It was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's database management system.
Acronym: Structured Query Language -
C
Developer: Dennis M. Ritchie
Purpose: It was initially used for system development work, especially the programs that make-up the operating system. -
ML
Developer: Robin Milner
Purpose: It is known for its use of the Hindley-Milner type inference algoritm, which can automatically infer the types of most expressions without requiring explicit type annotations.
Acronym: Metalanguage -
ADA
Developer: Dr. Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: It was created to be a general-purpose language for everything from businesses to rockets. It uses modular techniques that make it easier to build and maintain large systems.
Acronym: Ada was chosen in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Developer: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: It was originally created to be an enhancement to the C programming language. It is primarily used with system/application software, drivers, client-server applications and embedded firmware. -
Python
Developer: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: It allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code and emphasizes code readability. -
Visual Basic
Developer: Microsoft
Purpose: It was created to move BASIC language to an event driven and object-oriented programming (OOP) language. -
PHP
Developer: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: It was designed for web development and also general-purpose prgramming.
Acronym: Hypertext Preprocessor -
Delphi
Developer: Borland Software Corporation
Purpose: It was designed for console, desktop graphical, web and mobile applications -
Java
Developer: James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Purpose: It was created to run on all platforms that support Java without the need for redoing the code. -
Javascript
Developer: Brendan Eich
Purpose: It is a dynamic programming language. It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, to help interact with the user, control the browser, communicate at different times, and alter the content that is displayed.
