Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse designed for engineering purposes.

  • Math-Matic

    Team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper designed

  • Fortan

    Designed by John Backus; particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations; Acronym for formula translator.

  • COBOL

    Acronym for common business oriented language; popular for business applications that run on large computers;

  • LISP

    Acronym for list processor; popular for artificial intelligence applications; developed by John McCarthy

  • BASIC

    Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz; used for a wide variety of business applications.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM; For business applications, primarily for generating reports from data; Short for Report Program Generator.

  • LOGO

    Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon Turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics.

  • Pascal

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth; The nature of the language forces programmers to design programs methodically and carefully.

  • B

    It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie; designed for use on Multics.

  • C

    C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie and used to re-implement the Unix operating system.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh; known for its use of the Hindley–Milner type system. Stands for MetaLanguage.

  • SQL

    Abbreviation of structured query language; used for requesting information from a database. original version called SEQUEL (structured English query language) was designed by an IBM research center in 1974 and 1975.

  • ADA

    Developed For USDD; designed to be a general-purpose language for everything from business applications to rocket guidance systems. Ada is named after Augusta Ada Byron

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C.

  • Visual Basic

    developed by Microsoft. Visual Basic has an object-oriented philosophy

  • Python

    developed by Guido van Rossum Python; interpreters are available for most operating system platforms.

  • Java

    designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes; developed by an engineering group called the Green Team at Sun Microsystems

  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf. used to create dynamic Web pages. Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland Tech; updates new releases every 6 months.

  • Javascript

    Developed by Netscape Enable Web authors to design interactive sites.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup; its the most popular programming language for graphical applications, such as those in Windows and Macintosh.

  • ADA

    Developed for the United States Defense Department; Named after Augusta Ada Byron.

  • Logo

    Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon designed Turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called turtle.