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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse created it. It was designed for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus. Created for numeric and scientific computing. -
MATH-MATIC
It is short for algebraic translator 3. Charles Katz was the lead designer. -
Lisp
John McCarthy created it. It was created for mathematical notation and computer programs. -
COBOL
It is an acronym for common business-oriented language. Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. Designed for business use. -
RPG
IBM created it. It is a high-level language used for business. -
BASIC
John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz designed it. BASIC was created to simplify computer use so students could learn and use computers. -
LOGO
Created by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It is known for its turtle graphics. It is a multi-paradigm adaptation and dialect of lisp. -
B
Ken Thomson invented it. Designed for non-numeric applications. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created to encourage programming practices. -
C
Dennis Ritchie created it. It is a general language more multiple different uses. -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner. It is a multi-purpose language. IT stands for MetaLanguage. -
ADA
It was named after Ada, the first computer programmer. It is used for safety critical systems. -
C+++
Bjarne Stroustrup created it. A multi-purpose language used for multiple different things. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum. It is a high-level, general purpose language. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft created it. It is used for multiple different things. A programmer can create what he/she wants on it and can add third party programs to extend the capabilities. -
Delphi
Borland company created it. It is a language to run applications and has a built in error checking system. -
Java
James Gosling created it. It was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich create it. Was designed for HTML and is very dynamic and high-level. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf created it. It is a server-sided language used for web development.