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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. It was the first non- von Neumann high level language for a computer. Its name means "Plan Calculas." -
Fortran
Fortran was developed by John Backus to be a general purpose language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Its name means FORmula TRANslating system. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by a group led by Charles Katz. It was an early programming language used with the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. MATH-MATIC was the marketing name for the AT-3 complier. -
LISP
LISP was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. It's name means LISt Processing. -
COBOL
COBOL was developed by a team led by Grace Hopper. It was designed for business use. The name is an acronym for COmmon Business Oriented Language. -
RPG
RPG was developed by IBM. It is a high level language for business applications. Its name stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was designed for general purpose, and to be easy to use. Its name is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
Logo
Logo was developed by Wally Feurzeig, and Seymour Project. It was designed to be used for education. Its name comes from the Greek word logos meaning word or thought. -
B
The B language was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independant applications, such as system and language software. It was derived from BCPL, and may be named for it. -
Pascal
Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was very influetial. It is an imperative and procedural programming language. It was named in honor of the French mathematician, Blaise Pascal. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie to be a general purpose programming language. It was made after B and was named chronologically. -
ML
ML was developed by Robin Miliner and others at the University of Edinburgh. It is a general purpose functional programming language. ML stands for Metalanguage. -
SQL
SQL was developed by ISO and IEL. It is a special purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. Its name is an acronym for Structured Query Language. -
Ada
The ada language was developed by Jean Ichbiah. It was designed for the developement of very large software systems. It is named for Ada Lovelace, who is said to be the first programmer ever. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for general purposes. It is an advanced version of C, thus the name C++. -
Python
This language was developed by Python Software Foundation. It is a widely used general purpose language. The name "Python" does not stand for anything. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. It was derived from BASIC. It allows rapid application development of graphical user interface. VB was made to be easy for begginers to use. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It is commonly used as part of web browsers, and in game development and both desktop and mobile applications. -
PHP
PHP was developed by the PHP group. it was designed for web development and is also a general purpose programmaing language. It originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Delphi
Delphi was develpoed by the Borland Software Corporation. It is a integrated development environment for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. Delphi was originally and codename and not intended to become the actual name. However when a language with a very similar name came out before their's, thery had to come up with a new name. The developers wanted Delphi, and that's what it ended up being. -
Java
Java was developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. It is very widely used today. It was designed to allow developers to "write once, run anywhere." You only have to write it once and it can run on any computer with Java installed, no matter the operating system. It is named after Java coffee.