Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes.
  • Math-Matic

    Designed by Remington Rand to help with math.
  • COBOL

    Common Business Oriented Language. Created for businesses by Grace Murray Hopper
  • Fortran

    Designed by John Backus for mathematical calculations.
  • Lisp

    List Processor. Developed by John McCarthy for AI applications.
  • Basic

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz. Used for business applications.
  • RPG

    Report Program Generator. Developed by IBM for developing business applications.
  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon to be an educational programming language.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson Dennis Ritchie. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth as a popular teaching language..
  • ML

    Meta Language. A multi purpose language designed by Robin Milner.
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language. Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce to manage data.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Designed to be a systems programming language.
  • ADA

    Named after Ada Byron. Created for defense by Jean Ichbiah.
  • C++

    Created by Bjarne Stroustrup for graphical applications.
  • Java

    Developed by Sun Microsystems to take advantage of the WWW
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft to be a basic programming language.
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum for general purposes.
  • PHP

    Hypertext Preprocessor. Used to create web dynamics. Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
  • Delphi

    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies and Borland for object-oriented design
  • Javascript

    Developed by Netscape to allow web users to interact with the site.