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Plankalkul was made by Konrad Zuse. It was designed for use in engineering.
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Fortran was created by John Backus. It was a general purpose programming language that was originally developed for scientific computing. Its name stands for Formula Translation.
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MATH-MATIC was created by Charles Katz. It was an early programming language that was used for the UNIVAC.
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Lisp was originally created by John McCarthy. It is the second oldest high level programming language.
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RPG was created by IBM. It is a proprietary language of IBM. RPG stands for Report Program Generator.
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John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz created BASIC. It's was designed to be a simple programming language that anyone could use regardless of their knowlege of mathematics. BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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LOGO was created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is an educational programming language that created line diagrams.
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COBOL was created by CODASYL. It is an English-like language designed for business use. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language.
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B was created by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie. It is a typeless language that was designed for recursive, machine independent applications.
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PASCAL was created by Niklaus Wirth. It is a small programming language designed to encourage structured programming.
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Dennis Richie created the C programming language. C is a general purpose programming language that is sometimes used to write operating systems since it is very similar to typical machine instructions.
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ML was created by Robin Miller. It was a general purpose programming language. ML stands for MetaLanguage.
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ADA was created by Jean Ichbiah and his team under a contract by the US DoD. ADA is an object oriented high level programming language. Is named after Ada Lovelace
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SQL was created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It's a special purpose programming language that is used for managing data in a database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language.
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Bjarne Stroustrup created C++. It's an object oriented general purpose programming language.
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Python was created Guido van Rossum. It is a general purpose high level programming language.
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James Gosling is the creator of Java. Java is an object oriented language with roots in C++ and C.
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Visual Basic was created by Microsoft with the help of Alan Cooper and his team. It is an object oriented language that was based off of BASIC and was designed to be simple to learn.
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PHP was made by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is designed for web development but is also used as a general purpose language. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page but now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Processor.
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JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It is a high level language that is used in creating content for the world wide web.
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Delphi is currently under active development and is being developed by Embarcadero Technologies. The most current release is from April 20th. Delphi is a programming language and software development kit.
