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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse in 1942 for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Fortran was developed in 1956 by IBM for scientific and numeric computation, with its name meaning, Formula Translating System. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz as a programming language for the UNIVACS. -
Lisp
Lisp was designed by John McCarthy as a program for practical notation of mathematical calculations on computers. It's name derives from 'List Processing'. -
RPG
RPG was developed by IBM as the Report Program Generator. -
COBOL
COBOL is an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, which is primarily used in government and business. -
BASIC
BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and was designed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz as a set of high level computer languages that anyone could use. -
LOGO
LOGO is an educational program designed by Daniel Barbrow. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was designed by Niklaus Wirth to be efficient and manageable for good programming practices. -
B
B language was developed by Bell Labs and the work of Ken Thompson. It is no longer used as it has been taken over by the C language. -
C
C is a general purpose computer language designed by Kennis Richtie. -
ML
ML is a general purpose language designed by Robin Miller. ML stands for metalanguage. -
SQL
SQL stands for Structured Query Language and was designed by Donald Chamberlain as a special purpose language for managing data. -
ADA
ADA was named after Ada Lovelace and was designed by Jean Ichbiah and a team of developers. -
C++
C++ is used for a wide range of hardware and operating systems and was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Python
Python was designed by Guido van Rossum as a more easily readable and more efficient was of high level coding. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was derived form the BASIC language by Microsoft in 1991 as a more easily learned and useable language. -
PHP
PHP was developed by Ramsus Lerdorf as a server-side scripting language for web development and general purpose. PHP now stands for hypertext preprocessor. -
Delphi
Delphi was designed for Windows and easier Windows programming. It was developed by Borderland and is closely related to PASCAL. -
Java
Java was designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems to be as independent as possible so it could run on almost any system and is one of the most popular languages. -
Javascript
Javascript was developed by Brendan Eich to run as a part of web browsers. It is used to interact more easily with the user.
