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Plankalkül
Developed by Konrad Zuse
Developed for engineering purposes.
Translates to "Plan Calculus" -
Math-matic
Developed by Charles Katz
Developed as a replacement for FORTRAN.
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Fortran
Designed by John Backus
Designed for numeric and scientific computations
Derived from Formula Translating System -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy
Used as a high-level programming language
Derived from LISt Processing -
COBOL
Designed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, etc.
Designed for business use
COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Designed by IBM
Designed for business applications
Stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Designed by John George Kemeny & Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Designed to allow ease of use for people other than scientists and mathematicians.
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
Logo
Designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
Educational programming language used to teach programming.
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PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth
Developed to encourage good programming practices.
Named in honor of the French Mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson
Designed for system and language software
B isn't an acronym. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
Developed as a general purpose programming language
C isn't an acronym -
ML
Developed by Robert Milner
Developed to proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
ML stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system.
Stands for Structured Query Language. -
Ada
Initially developed by Jean Ichbiah
Originally developed for use by the DoD to supercede all of the languages used by them at the time
Ada isn't an acronym, but a name; Ada Lovelace, the "first" computer programmer. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Designed for general purposes
C++ isn't an acronym. -
Python
Designed by Guido Van Rossum
Designed for high-level, general purpose use.
It is not an acronym. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft
Developed as a basic form coding that was easy to learn.
It doesn't stand for anything. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
Developed for web development / general purpose coding.
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland
Designed as an application development tool for Windows
Delphi isn't an acronym. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling
Implemented in OpenJDK
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JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich
Used as a dynamic programming language in web browsers.
Isn't an acronym