Programming Languages

  • 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.