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Plankalkul
• designed by Konrad Zuse,
• designed for engineering purposes,
• means Plan Calculus in german -
Fortran
• originally developed by IBM at their campus,
• made for general purposes, numeric computation and scientific computing,
• the name comes from Formula Translating System. -
Lisp
• made by John McCarthy,
• made for a practical mathematical notation for computer programs,
• the name comes from “LISt Processing” -
COBOL
• primarily designed by Grace Hopper,
• Its name stands for common business-oriented language,
• it is used globally in governmental and military agencies and in commercial enterprises -
RPG
• designed for business applications,
• stands for Report Program Generator,
• developed by IBM -
Basic
• designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz,
• its purpose was to be easy to use,
• the name stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
• created by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon,
• used for education,
• the name comes from the Greek logos meaning word -
B
• designed by Ken Thompson,
• Used as the systems language on Honeywell's GCOS-3 -
PASCAL
• developed by Niklaus Wirth,
• named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal,
• used to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
• developed by Dennis Ritchie,
• it is meant for general-purpose -
ML
• used as a general-purpose functional programming language,
• developed by Robin Milner,
• stands for metalanguage -
SQL
• developed by ISO/IEC,
• designed for managing data in relational database management systems,
• stands for Structured Query Language -
ADA
• designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah,
• designed to supersede the hundreds of programming languages already used by the dept. of defense,
• named after ada lovelace( the first computer programmer) -
C++
• designed by Bjarne Stroustrup,
• it is a general-purpose programming language -
MATH-MATIC
• developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign Illinois,
• used in scientific engineering and mathematical fields -
Python
• designed as a general-purpose high-level programming language,
• designed by Guido van Rossum -
Visual Basic
• developed by Microsoft,
• its purpose was to be easy to use for beginner programmers -
Javascript
• developed in Netscape by Brendan Eich,
• it was made as part of a web browser so that client-side scripts may interact with the user, -
Delphi
• developed by Borland,
• used as a rapid application development tool for Windows,
• named Delphi in reference to the Oracle at Delphi -
Java
• developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems,
• it was made for general purpose and to have as few implementation dependencies as possible -
PHP
• designed for Web development,
• developed by The PHP Group