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Languages
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Plankalkül
-By Konrad Zuse.
-For engineering purposes for a computer.
-Named from "Plan Calculus". -
Fortran
-By John Backus at IBM.
-For numeric computation and scientific computing.
-Named after The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
-By Charles Katz.
-For surpassing Fortran.
-Named after change from FLOW-MATIC. -
Lisp
-By John McCarthy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-For artificial intelligence (AI) research.
-Named after LISt Processing. -
COBOL
-By Grace Hopper.
-For business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
-Named after COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
-By IBM
-For business applications.
-Named for "Report Program Generator". -
BASIC
-By John Kemeny/Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth
-For general purposes, so anyone could use it.
-Named after "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" -
LOGO
-By Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
-For use of "turtle graphics", line graphics.
-Named after Greek word logos meaning word. To set it apart from other languages. -
B
-By Ken Thompson at Bell Labs.
-For fitting into the memory capacity of microcomputers.
-Named after the BCPL language, it was written with it. -
PASCAL
-By Niklaus Wirth.
-For teaching students programming.
-Named after the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
-By Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Labs
-For system programming (Operating Systems)'
-Named because of features were derived from B -
ML
-By Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh.
-For language design and manipulation.
-Named after "metalanguage". -
SQL
-By Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce at IBM.
-For managing data.
-Named orginally "SEQUEL", but it was copyrighted. -
ADA
-By Jean Ichbiah at CII Honeywell Bull
-or replacing Departent of Defences many languages.
-Named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. -
C++
-By Barne Stroustrup at Bell Labs.
-For general purpose, software applications.
-Named because a pun involving the increment operator. -
Python
-By Guido van Rossum.
-For being used as a scripting language.
-Named after Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
-By Alan Cooper at Microsoft.
-For making user interface applications.
-Named because it was derived from "BASIC". -
Delphi
-By Borland, then Embarcadero Technologies.
-For a teaching language for novices.
-Named after Oracle at Delphi. -
Java
-By James Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
-For letting application developers "write once, run anywhere".
-Named after Java coffee, the developers drank a lot of it. -
Javascript
-By Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications.
-For being a part of a web browser.
-Named because of change from Mocha and Livescript. -
PHP
-By Rasmus Lerdorf, The PHP Group.
-For web development.
-Named originally "Personal Home Page", but named "Hypertext Preprocessor"