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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse - Used for engineering purposes - Stood for Plan Calculus -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Charles Katz - Used for functions and expressions - No acronym -
Fortran
Created by John Backus - Used for designing bridges and automation controls - Stood for Formula Translator -
RPG
Created by IBM - Used for report-building - Stood for Report Program Generator -
COBOL
Created by Grace Hopper - Used for business and administrative purposes - Stood for Common Business Oriented Languages -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz - Used for interactive mainframe time sharing - Stood for Beginners All Purpose Instruction Code -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon - Used for creating basic shapes with a turtle cursor - Derived from Greek word ,logos, meaning “thought” -
B
Created by Ken Thompson - Used for machine-independent applications - Name based on Bon -
PASCAL
Late 1960’s - Created by Niklaus Wirth - Used to teach programming - Named based on Blaise Pascal -
SQL
Early 1970’s - Created by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce - Used for communicating with databases - Stood for Structured Query Language -
ML
Early 1970’s - Created by Robin Milner - Used for theorem-proving projects - Stood for Meta Language -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie - Used for implementing operating systems and embedded system applications - Stood for Basic -
LISP
1970s - Created by John McCarthy - Used for manipulation of data strings - Stood for Lisp Processing -
ADA
Early 1980’s - Created by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft - Used by the Department of Defense - Name based on Augusta Ada King -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum - Used for websites, web applications, and functionality of an application - No acronym -
Visual Basic
Created by Alan Cooper - Used to choose and modify sections of code - No Acronym -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf - Used for server-side web development - Stood for Personal Home Page -
Java
Created by James Gosling - Used for creating applications - No acronym -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich - Used as a scripting language for HTML pages - Based on Java -
Delphi
Created by Anders Hejlsberg - Used for object-oriented design - Based on the Pascal Language -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup - Used for general-purpose programming - Based on the C Language