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Plankalkul
Developed by: Konrad Zuse. Primary Purpose: Meant for engineering purposes. Acronym:Plan calculus . -
FORTRAN
Developed by: A small team led by John Backus at IBM. Primary purpose: released to be a programming tool for IBM but is now used for science & engineering calculations. Acronym: Formula translator -
Lisp
Developed by: John McCarthy. Primary Purpose: Meant to be used as a practical mathematics notation for computer programs. Acronym: List processing -
RPG
Developed by:IBM . Primary Purpose: Originated as a report building system used in DEC and IBM. Acronym: Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Developed by: John Kemendy, and Thomas Kurtz. Primary Purpose: Made to be an interactive mainframe timesharing language. Acronym: Stands for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Designed by: Wallace Feurzeig. Primary Purpose: Designed to be a tool for learning. Acronym: None -
B
Developed by: Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Primary purpose: Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications such as system & language software.
Acronym: Came from BCPL -
PASCAL
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth. Primary Purpose: Was to teach structured programming. Acronym: Is french, Programme d'Aide aux Sciences et Aux Langues -
C
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie. Primary Purpose: Meant to be a system for writing operating systems. Acronym: None -
ML
Developed by: Robin Milner . Primary Purpose: Particularly used for Meta- Programming (Writing programs that manipulate other programs) . Acronym: Meta-language -
C++
Developed by: Bjarne Strousstrup. Primary Purpose: Add on to C language, a collection of data types that can be instantiated multiple times. Acronym: C Object- oriented. -
ADA
Developed by: Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract of the United States department of defense (DoD). Primary Purpose: It's primary purpose was to take place of 100's of programming languages at the time used by DoD. Acronym: ADA was named after Ada Lovelace. -
SQL
Developed by: Donald D Chamberlin . Primary Purpose: Meant for managing data in a relational database management system. Acronym: Stuctured Query Language. -
COBOL
Developed by: CODASYL (Committee On Data System Languages). Primary purpose: Designed for business applications like finance. Acronym: Common business oriented language -
Java
Developed by: James Gosling at sun micro systems. Primary purpose: Aimed at programming home appliances. Acronym: none. -
Python
Developed by: Guido van Rossum . Primary purpose: Was to rapidly prototype applications that will be implemented in other languages. Acronym: None -
Visual Basic
Developed by: Microsoft . Primary Purpose: Programming language designed for begineers . Acronym: None . -
PHP
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf. Primary Purpose: Designed for web development. Acronym: Hypertext Preprocessor . -
Delphi
Developed by: Borland. Primary purpose: Made for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. Acronym: None -
Java Script
Developed by: Brendan Eich. Primary purpose: Made for Netscape Navigator. Acronym: None.