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Plankalkul
Developed by: Konrad Zuse
Developed for: high-level non-von Neumann programming -
Fortran(Formula Translating System)
Created by John Backus at IBM.
-For Science and engineering applications -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by: team led by Charles Katz
Developed for: Improvement of FORTRAN
Name: AT-3 compiler (marketing name) -
Lisp
Developed by: John McCarthy
Developed for: Practical Mathematical notation for computer programs
Name: "LiST Processign" -
COBOL (Common business-oriented language)
Developed by CODASYL and was extended apon work by Grace Hopper.
-Created for DoD as a portable data processing language. -
RPG
Developed by: IBM
Developed for: a tool to manufacture punched car processing on the IBM 1401
Name: Report Program Generator -
BASIC(Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Developed at Darthmouth College by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E.Kurtz.
-Created as a easier programming language that would unblock the constraints the programming was limited by Mathematicians and scientists. -
LOGO
Developed By: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wallly Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
Developed for: Line Graphics and educational programming language. -
B
developed at Bells Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Extended from BCPL and designed for non-numeric, machine independent applications. -
PASCAL
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Developed for: small and efficient language to provide practies such as structured programming and data structuring.
Name: named after Blaise Pascal -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie in Bell Labs.
-Created as a General Purpose, imperative computer programming language. -
ML
Developed by: Robin Milner at University of Edinburgh
Developed for: Develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
Name: MetaLanguage -
ADA
Originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah funded by the DoD.Created as a main language that would be dominant then the other hundreds in use by the department.
Named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
-Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs.
-Extension of the common C language.
-Created to provide applications with object oriented programming. -
Phython
Developed by: Guido van Rossum
Developed for: Execution on wide-variety of systems
Name: "The Zen of Python" -
Visual Basic
Developed by: Microsoft
Developed for: IDE and event-drived language -
Delphi
Designed by Broland Software Corporation.
-Created as a rapid application development tool for the PC.
--Can be called a IDE of some sort.
-Extended upon C++. -
Java
Created by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems.
-For: "Write once, run anyuwhere"
-Name derived from Javanese language -
JavaScript
Designed by: Brendan Eich
Created for: Object oriented language on the web to work alongside HTML
Name; Javanese Script -
PHP
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developed for: server-side programming language
Name: "Personal Home Page" -
SQL
Developed by: Donald CHamberlin and Raymond Boyce
Developed for: Managing data in RDBMS
Name: Structured Query Language