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Programming Languages

By jackbeijer

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Language was made for engineering purposes. Plankalkul means "Plan Calculas: in German
  • Period: to

    Time of Developement

  • Math-Matic

    Developed by Charles Kats. Compeditor of Fortran. Stands for Mathematic

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus. Was mad for numeric computation and scientific computing. Stands for FORmula TRANslaion

  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy. Created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. Stands for LISt Processing.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. This language was made for business applications. Stands for
    Report
    Program
    Generator

  • Cobol

    Developed by Grace Hopper. Was made for business and finance. Stands for:
    Common
    Business
    Oriented
    Language

  • Basic

    Developed by John George Kemmny and Thomas Eugene Kurts. It enabled students to use computers. Stands for:
    Beginners
    All-purpose
    Symbolic
    Instruction
    Code

  • Logo

    Developed by Wally Feruzeig and Seymour Papert. Was made as a multi-paradigm adaption. Was named as a dialect of Lisp

  • B

    Developed by Bell Labs. Made for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. Named after the oompany's name.

  • Pascal

    Developed by Niklaus Writh. Based on structured programming.

  • C

    Developed by Denish Ritchie. Was made for assembly use. Was named after the previous language; B.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner. Used for algorithms. Stands for metalanguage

  • SQL

    Developed by ISO/IEC. Desiged to act as a relational database management system.
    Stands for:
    Strucured
    Query
    Language

  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. Was made for embedded and real-time systems. Named after Ada Lovelace

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Was made for system programming and is object oriented. Named after the previous language; C.

  • Python

    Developed by The Python Software Foundation. Is a general purpose, high-level programming language.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. Is an object oriented language made to be easy to learn and use

  • Java

    Developed by Oracle Corporation. Made to let application developers "Write one, run anywhere"

  • Javascript

    Developed by Netscape Comunications Corp. Allows client side scrips to interact with the user and control the browser. Originally was called "Mocha" but was later named "Javascript"

  • PHP

    Developed by the PHP Group. It is a server-side scripting language designed for web development.
    Stands for:
    Personal
    Home
    Page

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland. Made as a rapid applicaion developemet tool. Named after Pascal.