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Computer Languages
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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse, designed to be used in engineering. -
MATH-MATIC
Charles Katz, designed to be an improvement to Fortran. -
Fortran
John Backus, designed for scientific and engineering purposes. -
LISP
Steve Russel, designed for algorithms. -
COBOL
Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney, designed to be used in the Department of Defense. -
RPG
IBm, designed for punch card machines. -
BASIC
John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, designed as a learning tool. -
Logo
Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, designed to created a math world were children could play with words and sentences. -
B
Ken Thompson, designed for non-numeric applications. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth, designed to have an efficient language that incorporates structured programming. -
C
Dennis Ritchie, designed to reimplement the Unix operating system. -
ML
Robin Milner. designed for financial operations. -
SQL
ISO, IEC, designed around IBM's data system -
Ada
Designed to be an improvement on the current language used by the DoD. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup, designed to upgrade C with Simula features. -
Python
Guido Van Rossum, designed to work with the Amoeba operating system. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft, designed to be easy to use in windows. -
Delphi
Borland Sofware Corp., designed with database connectivity as a main feature. -
Java
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, designed to be easily cross-platformed. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich, designed to be a light-weight competetor to Java. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for web development.