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PLANKALKUL
Author: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Used for the first computer and math.
Meaning of Name: German for Plan Calculus -
Fortran
Author: John Backus and IBM
Purpose: It was the first optimizing Compiler.
Meaning of name: Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
Author: John McCarthy
Purpose: Practical mathematical notation for computer programs
Meaning of name: Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol. -
Lisp
Author: John McCarthy
Purpose: Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
Meaning of Name: Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol. -
COBOL
Authors: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
Purpose: A portable programming language for data processing.
Meaning of Name: common business-oriented language -
BASIC
Authors: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: It designed to be the first language programmers would use, for Microcomputers.
Meaning of Name: Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
RPG
Author: IBM
Purpose: business applications
Meaning of Name: Report Program Generator -
Logo
Author: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Purpose: Education
Meaning: It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" -
B
Author: Bell Labs
Purpose: B made for Non-numeric machine independent for applications, such as Language software. -
C
Author: Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: It has found lasting use in applicatons that had been coded in Assembly Language, Including Operatng Systems.
Meaning of name: Compiler -
SQL
Author:Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: Managing Data
Meaning: Structured Query Language -
ML
Author: Robin Milner
Purpose: Math
Meaning: M etalanguage -
ADA
Author: Jean Inchbiah
Purpose: Ada is a compiler to make it easy to use and easy to maintan to compile time erros.
Meaning: Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, known as the first Programmer. -
C++
Author: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: It was used to replace C and work better than it too.
Meaning: Compiler + + -
PASCAL
Author: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: A Learning program to enforce good, clean programming.
Meaning: Named after a French man, Blaise Pascal -
PYTHON
Author: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: Making code easyier to read.\
Meaning: The Author was a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus -
Visual Basic
Author: Microsoft
Purpose: To make application making easyier.
Meaning: Visual came from Ruby and Basic came from Basic (From back in the past) -
Delphi
Author: Embarcadero Technologies
Purpose: An integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
Meaning of name: Oracle at Delphi -
Java
Author: James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Purpose: Interactive Television...
Meaning: Java Coffee -
JavaScript
Author: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Websites
Meaning: It was named LiveScipt but changed to JavaScript since it worked with Java. -
PHP
Author: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Web development
Meaning: Personal HomePage