Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Designed for Engineering purposes.
    Developed by Konrad Zuse.
    Translates to "Plan Calculus".
  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus.
    Designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
    Acronym-FORmula TRANslation
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Grace Hopper.
    Designed to simplify programming of mathematical problems faster.
  • COBOL

    Developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages.
    Developed for business and administrative purposes.
    Acronym- Common Business Oriented Language.
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy.
    Used for artificial intelligence programming.
    Acronym- List Processing
  • RPG

    Designed for business applications.
    Developed by IBM
    Acronym- Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
    Designed for students to write simple computer programs.
    Acronym- Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction code
  • LOGO

    Designed for children experimenting their first programming steps.
    Developed for Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth.
    Designed to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
    Named after Blaise Pascal.
  • B

    Developed by D. M. Ritchie and D. M. Ritchie.
    Developed for non numeric applications.
  • C

    Used for scripting system applications.
    Developed by Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner.
    Designed as a general purpose functional programming language.
    Acronym-Meta Language
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
    Used to develop different games or gaming engines
  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah.
    Named after Augusta Ada Lovelace.
    Develped for large, long lived applications.
  • SQL

    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
    Enables programmer to work with data.
    Acronym-Structured Query Language.
  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum.
    Designed to develop web applications, complex scientific, and numeric applications.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft.
    Designed to allow programmers to create software and codes in an easily
  • PHP

    Designed to develop Static websites, Dynamic websites, Web applications.
    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
    Acronym-Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Delphi

    Developed for rapid application development of software.
    Developed by Embarcadero company.
  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling.
    Designed to help programmers write codes using English-based commands instead of having to write in numeric codes.
  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich.
    Designed to make web development easier and more attractive