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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse designed it engineering purpose. -
Fortran
General purpose language, developed by IBM. Not an acronym -
Math-Matic
Created by a group led by Charles Katz as an improvement of Fortran. -
Lisp
Be John McCarthy, originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. The name comes from LISt Processing . -
COBOL
Designed for business use by the Conference on Data Systems Languages. Acronym for common business-oriented language. -
RPG
For commercial applications, developed by IBM. -
Basic
Originally designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz for general purpose. Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Educational programming language designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Not an acronym -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach students structured programming. -
SQL
Database language designed for managine data. Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM. -
C
General purpose, designed by Dennis Ritchie. -
ML
General purpose, by Robin Milner -
ADA
Developed by a team led by team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah for large, long-lived applications. -
C++
General purpose. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Python
General purpose and high level language, widely used. Developed by Guido van Rossum and Python Software Foundation. -
Visual basic
Developed by Microsoft for its COM programming model. It allows fast application development and access to databases. -
Java
By James Gosling and Sun Microsystems to run across many platforms. -
Javascript
For web browsers, by Brendan Eich -
PHP
Designed for web development and general purpose. Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. -
Delphi
Integrated development environment. Originally developed by Borland as a rapid development tool for Windows.