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Plankalkul
It was developed in 1945 by Konrad Zuse. Its primary use was for engineering purposes. It is not an acronym. -
Fortran
It was developed in the 1950's by IBM. Its primary purpose was to be used for numeric and scientific computation. It is not an acronym. -
MATH-MATIC
It was developed in 1955 by a team led by Charles Katz. It was developed to be a programming language for the UNIVAC I and II. It is not an acronym. -
Lisp
It was developed in 1958 by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Its primary use was to act as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. It is not an acronym. -
COBOL
It was developed in 1959 by a team of people led by a guy named Hopper. Its primary use was to be a user friendly business software. COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
It was developed in 1959 by IBM. Its use was for all kinds of business applications. It is not an acronym. -
BASIC
It was developed in 1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Its primary use was to allow students in other fields to use computers since at the time all computers required writing custom software which only certain people learned. It is an acronym and stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
It was developed n 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Its primary purpose is commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics. It is not an acronym. -
ML
It was developed in the early 1970's by a team led by Robin Milner. Its function was to automatically assign the types of most expressions without requiring explicit type annotations in algorithms. It is not an acronym. -
PASCAL
It was developed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth. Its primary use was for scientific somputing. It's not an acronym. -
C
It was developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie. Its primary purpose was to develop the UNIX operating system. It is not an acronym. -
B
It was developed in January of 1973 by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. It was primarily used for non-numeric applications like system programming. It is not an acronym. -
SQL
It was developed in 1974 by ISO/IEC. It was primarily used for managing data or stream processing. SQL stands for "Structured Query Language". -
ADA
It was developed in 1979 by a team of people led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. Its primary purpose was for large, long lived applications because reliability and efficiency was essential. ADA is not an acronym. -
C++
It was developed in October 1985 by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was used to add object-oriented programming into the C language. It is not an acronym. -
Python
It was developed in 1989 by Guido van Rossum. Its purpose was o support multiple programming paradigms and to enable writing clear programs. It is not an acronym. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft in 1991. Its primary purpose was to help programmers learn how to create simple or complex GUI applications. It is not an acronym. -
Delphi
It was developed in 1993 by Anders Hejlsberg. Its primary use was to be a rapid application development for Windows. It is not an acronym. -
PHP
It was developed in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Its primary purpose was to design websites. PHP stands for "Personal Home Page". -
JAVA
It was developed by James Gosling in 1995. Its primary purpose was to allow programmers to code and and have it run on all platforms. -
Javascript
It was developed in May of 1995 by Brendan Eich. Its primary purpose was to act as what we know today as a web browser. It's not an acronym.