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Plankalkul
Designer: Konrad Zuse Designed for engineering purposes but not published because of WWII Plankalkul (Plan Calculus) -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by: Charles Katz Programming language designed for the UNIVAC, it was a compiler. -
Fortran
Designers: John Backus & IBM Used for numeric computation and scientific computing. Fortran (Formula Translation) -
Lisp
Designer: John McCarthy Designed for mathematical notation, and quickly became a favorite for AI programming. LISP (Location/Identifier Separation Protocol) -
RPG
Designer: IBM Designed for business applications to replicate punchcards. RPG (Report Program Generator) -
COBOL
Designers: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney Wanted a portable programming language for data processing at the DoD. COBOL(Common Business Oriented Language) -
BASIC
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz Enable students to learn programming that weren't in science or mathematics, who were generally the only people that learned programming. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) -
LOGO
Designers: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert Educational programming language that uses turtle graphics to teach people how to program. -
B
Developed at Bell Labs Recursive, machine independent applications such as system and language software. Name could be a contraction of BCPL -
C
Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs Provides constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions. -
PASCAL
Designer: Nikalus Wurth Designed to teach good programming practices with structured programming. -
ML
Designer: Robert Milner Designed to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem power. ML (MetaLanguage) -
SQL
Designer: Donald D Chamberlin Special program used for managing data in a database system, or for stream processing. SQL (Structured Query Language) -
Ada
Created by: Jean Ichbiah and team of CII Honeywell Bull Built to have a safe modular programming method, and cut down on the amount of high level DoD programs. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup Used for system programming with highlights on efficiency, flexibility, and performance. -
Python
Designer: Guido van Rossum Used for general programming with emphasis on readability. -
Delphi
Designers: Borland Created as a rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Java
Designers: James Gosling Designed to have the least amount of dependencies possible, and to run anywhere. -
JavaScript
Designer: Brendan Eich One of the three core technologies that websites employ to give their website functionality. -
PHP
Designer: Rasmus Lerdorf Server side scripting program intended for web development. PHP (Personal Home Page) -
Visual Basic
Designer: Microsoft Easy programming of graphic elements, intended to teach new programmers about OOP.