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Plankalkul (Plan Calculus)
Developed by Konrad Zuse as the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer -
Fortran (Formula Translator)
Developed by a team at IBM led by John Backus to allow easy translation of math formulas into code. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remington Rand as a programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. -
COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)
Developed by Grace Murray Hopper to be part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. -
RPG (Report Program Generator)
Developed by IBM as an alternative for the punch card processing system on the IBM 1401 -
Lisp (List Processing)
Developed by John McCarthy originally as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, but soon became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence. -
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to run General Electric's computer system. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert to create a mathematical land where children could play with words and sentences and give informative error messages. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming. -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming with the emphasis of using conditional and loop structures without the use of GoTo statements. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson to construct utilities running on the Unix operating system. -
ML (Meta Language)
Developed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Developed by Raymond Boyce for getting access and modifying data held in data bases -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension to C. -
ADA
Developed by Jean Ichbiah to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used in military projects -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum on the emphasis of code legibility and it's syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft to make it easier to write programs for the Windows Computer Operating System. -
PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor)
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf to build simple, dynamic web applications. -
Delphi
Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software. -
Java
Developed by a team at Sun Microsystems Inc. led by James Gosling to create a new language that would allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other. -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich to create a programming language for a new web browser Netscape at the time.