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Plankakul
Developed by: Konrad Zuse
Primary purpose: Scentific and mathematical computations
Acronym meaning: Program calculus -
Fortran
Developed by: IBM
Primary purpose: Numeric computation and scientific computing
Acronym meaning: Formula translation -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by: Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper
Primary purpose: Solve math
Acronym meaning: Stands for Mathematics -
Lisp
Developed by: John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin
Primary purpose: Functional programming
Acronym meaning: List Processing -
COBOL
Developed by: Grace Hopper
Primary purpose: Administrative systems for companies and goverenments
Acronym meaning: Common business oriented programing -
RPG
Developed by: IBM
Primary purpose: IBM propreitary programming language
Acronym meaning: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by: Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny
Primary purpose: teaching introductory concepts to beginner programmers
Acronym meaning: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Developed by: Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
Primary purpose: Education
Acronym meaning: Language of Graphics Oriented -
B
Developed by: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Primary purpose: System development
Acronym meaning: B in BCPL -
C
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie
Primary purpose: Used for system programming
Acronym meaning: C stands for control -
PASCAL
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Primary purpose: Used for early parts of the Macintosh
Acronym meaning: 17th Century mathematician Blaise Pascal -
ML
Developed by: Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh
Primary purpose: general-purpose
Acronym meaning: Meta-Language -
SQL
Developed by:
Primary purpose: Managing data in a reltational database
Acronym meaning: Structured Query Language -
ADA
People who developed the language: A team led by Jean Ichbiah and CII Honeywell Bull
Language purpose: support for systems, numerical, financial, and object-oriented programming
Acronym meaning: Named after Augusta Ada -
C++
Developed by: Bjarne Stroustrupp
Primary purpose: Enhance C features
Acronym meaning: C Object-Oriented Programming -
Python
Developed by: Guido van Rossum
Primary purpose: General purpose
Acronym meaning: Named after Monty Python's Flying Circus -
Visual Basic
Developed by: Microsoft
Primary purpose: Easier and smoother programming
Acronym meaning: VB which stands for Visual Basic -
Delphi
Developed by: Anders Hejlsberg
Primary purpose: Provide database connectivity
Acronym meaning: Delphi was the codename so they stuck with it -
Java
Developed by: James Gosling
Primary purpose: To make programming less tedious
Acronym meaning: Named after Java coffee -
Javascript
Developed by: Brendan Eich
Primary Purpose: Interaction within websites
Acronym meaning: The acronym is JS which stands for JavaScript -
PHP
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf and Zend Technologies
Primary purpose: Sever-side scripting, command line scripting, and writing desktop applications
Acronym meaning: Personal Home Page Tools