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• Plankalkul
Creator:Konrad Zuse
Purpose:Created for mathematical and engineering purposes.
Name:Plankalkul means Plan Calculus -
Fortran
Creator:IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California
Purpose:Used for scientific and mathematical computations.
Name:Derived from Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
Creators:A group led by Charles Katz
Purpose:An early programming language for UNIVAC I and II, made to be an improvement on FORTRAN,
Name; No other meaning -
Lisp
Creator: Designed by John McCarthy at MIT.
Purpose:Used widely in AI reasearch
Name:The name LISP is derived from "List Processing, -
COBOL
Creeator:Grace Hopper
Purpose:Used for business finances and administrative systems for companies.
Name:An acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Creator:Developed by IBM
Purpose:Used to replicate punched card processing
Name: AN acronym for Report Program Generator -
Basic
Creators:John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College
Purpose:Used as a simple to use language for beginners or people who weren’t scientists or mathematicians at an affordable price.
Name:An acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Creators:Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Purpose:Uses turtle graphics to learn and explore mathematics
Name:It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" by Feurzeig -
B
Creators:Ken Thompsom and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs
Purpose:Was created as a stripped down version of BCPL to be cheaper and fit on smaller computers
Name:Was a condensed form of BCPL -
PASCAL
Creator:Niklaus Wirth
Purpose:Used to teach new programmers proper programming technique.
Name:Named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal -
C
Creator:Dennis Ritchie at At&t Bell Labs.
Purpose:Used to for system development, like operating systems.
Name:No other meanings -
ML
Creator:Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh
Purpose:Used primarily for mathematical functions
Name:Stands for metalanguage. -
SQL
Creators:Donald D. Chamberlin, Donald C. Messerly, and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM
Purpose:Used to develop database applications
Name: Originally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), changed to SQL for copyright reasons -
ADA
Creator:Jean Ichbiah under the U.S Department of Defense
Purpose:Used to supercede all other languages used by the DOD
Name:Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer -
C++
Ceator:Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs
Purpose:Combines High and low level language features and is commonly used in entertainment software such as videogames.
Name:Originally called C with classes, it was changed to C++ as a pun involving the increment operator. -
Python
Creator: Guido van Rossum
Purpose:, Used for development on webpages, video games and software development.
Name: Taken from Monty Python, because the the creators wanted thed language to be fun to use. -
Visual Basic
Creator:Developed by Microsoft,drag and drop interface developed by Alan Cooper
Purpose:Used to developed goal oriented applications with a simple interface.
Name: No other meaning. -
Delphi
Creator:The company, Borland
Purpose:Used as a rapid application development tool.
Name: No other meaning -
Java
Creator:James Gosling at Sun Microsystems
Purpose:Used to run on multiple devices without having to recompile using a Java virtual machine.
Name: No other meaning -
Javascript
Crreator:Brendan Eich at Netscape
Purpose:used to access a page without causing processor strain on the server
Name: No other meaning. -
• PHP
Creator:Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose:, A sever side scripting language meant mainly for web development.
Name:Acronym for "personnel home page"