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Plankalkul
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Developer: Konrad Zuse
Use: engineering purposes
Meaning: PlanCalculus -
Fortran
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Developers: John Backus and IBM
Use: numeric computation and scientific computing
Meaning: Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
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Developer: Charles Katz
Use: an improvement over FORTRAN -
Lisp
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Developers: Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Use: a mathematical notation for computer programs
Meaning: LISt Processing -
COBOL
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Developer: the CODASYL Committee
Use: write programs for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments
Meaning: COmmon Business Oriented Language -
RPG
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Developer: IBM
Use: replicates punched card processing on the IBM 1401
Meaning: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developers: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kutz
Use: help teach the fundamentals of programming
Meaning: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
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Developers: Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
Use: teaches concepts of programming related to LISP -
B
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Developers: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Use: recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications
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PASCAL
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Developer: Niklaus Wirth
Use: encourages good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring -
C
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Developer: Dennis Ritchie
Use: lexical variable scope and recursion -
ML
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Developer: Robin Milner
Use: develops proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
Meaning: Metalanguage -
SQL
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Developers: ISO/IEC
Use: managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS)
Meaning: Structural Query Language -
ADA
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Developer: Jean Ichbiah
Use: large systems where reliability is important
Meaning: Augusta Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer -
C++
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Developer: Bjarne Stroustrup
Use: low level memory manipulation -
Python
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Developer: Python Software Foundation
Use: expresses concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C -
Visual Basic
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Developer: Microsoft
Use: enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. -
Java
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Developer: Oracle Corporation
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Javascript
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Developers: Netscape Communications Corp and Mozilla Foundation
Use: allows client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchonously, and alter the document content that is displayed. -
PHP
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Developer: The PHP Group
Use: web development
Meaning: Personal Home Page -
Delphi
Developer: Embarcadero Technologies
Use: rapid application tool for Windows