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FORTRAN
Created by John Backus as a general purpose language suited for numeric and scientific/engineering applications. It is named after The IBM Mathematical Formula Translation System. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by a group led by Charles Katz, MATH-MATIC as an improvement over FORTRAN as a commercial compiler. -
COBOL
Created by a host of people including Grace Hopper, COBOL is mainly for use in buisness, finance, and administration systems. COBOL stands for Common Buisiness-Oriented Language. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz for a simple and easy way that non-scientific students could use computers. The name stands for Beginner's All-Purpose symbolic instruction code. -
Logo
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert for use in handling lists, files, I/O and recursion. The language is very popular for education. The name was derived from the Greek word for "word." -
Pascal
Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal named in honor of French Mathematician Blaise Pascal. The main purpose of Pascal was to encourge good programming practice using structure. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie for implementing system software and is used for developing application software. Named after being derived form a language called "B." -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlain and Laymond F. Boyce for managing data in relational database managment systems. SQL stands for Structured Querey Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft for the Department of Defense to use. Mainly used for embedded and real-time systems. It was named after the first programmer Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Created by Bjavne Stroustrup as an enhancement to C and is widely used for applications and hardware designs. -
Visual BASIC
Created by Microsoft to be relatively easy to learn and use for the COM programming model. It was derived from BASIC and added bonuses for graphic user interfaces. -
Java
Created by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems to let developers "write once, run anywhere." Java is very popular for client-server web applications. Java was named after the vast amount of java coffe consmed by its developers while creating it.