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Plankalkul
*Translates to "Formal System of Planning"
*Desgined by Konrad Zuse
*Desgined for engineering purposes -
MATH-MATIC
*Desgined as a improvment over FORTRAN
*Developed by a team led by Charles Katz -
Fortran
*Desgined to be a more practical alternative to assembly language
*Derived fromrmula Translating System"
*Development team led by John Backus -
Lisp
*Created as a practical mathmatical notion for computers
*Developed by Steve Russel, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin -
COBOL
*Is an acronym for "Common Buisness-Oriented Language"
*Desgined by the Confrence on Data System Languages
*Desgined to by commonly used by buisnesses -
RPG
*Stands for "Report Program Generator"
*Developed by IBM
*Desgined to generate reports from data files -
BASIC
*Is an acronym for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
*Desgined by John Kemedy and Thomas Kurtz
*Desgined to be learned more easily so anyone could use it -
LOGO
*Desgined to teach programming related to LISP
*Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert -
B
*Made By Ken Thompsonn and Dennis Ritchie
*Desgined for Recursive, Non-Numeric, Machine-Independent Programs.
*Derrived from BCPL -
PASCAL
*Desgined to encourage good programming practices
*Desgined by Nikalus Wirith -
C
*Made because B couldn't make use of all of the PDP-11's features
*Originally developed by Dennis Ritchie -
ML
*Desgined to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorm prover
*Desgined by Robin Milner -
SQL
*Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
*Originally going to be called SEQUEL (an acronym for "Structured English Query Language") but was changed to "SQL" for copywright reasons
*Desgined to manipulate and retreive data from IBM's database -
First Valid ADA implmentation
*Desgined to meet the UK Ministry of Defense Requirements
*Named in honor of Ada Lovelace -
C++
*Desgined to be C enchanced with Simula-like features
*Desgined by Bjarne Stroustrup -
Python
*Desgined to by a descenant of ABC that would appeal to Unix/C hackers
*Named after Monty Python's Flying Circuis
*Developed by Guido van Rossum
*Started as a "hobby" programming project -
Visual Basic
*Desgined to be easy to learn and use
*Developed by Microsoft
*Derived from Basic -
Delphi
*Desgined to be a rapid application development tool
*Desgined by Anders Hejlsberg
*Name refrences the Oracle of Delphi -
Java
*Desgined to let developers "write once, run anywhere"
*Named after the "Java" coffee
*Developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton -
PHP
*Developed by the PHP group
*Desgined for both web development and general use programming -
JavaScript
*Desgined to be appealing to non-professional programmers
*Desgined by Brendan Eich
*Not related to Java