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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse, for engineering, first language designed for a computer, Plan Calculus named for -
MATH-MATIC
for the Univac I and II, Remington Rand, early language -
Lisp
John McCarthey, long history, weird notation, younger than Fortran by a year -
RPG
by IBM, for business applications, Report Program Generator -
BASIC
John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, designed for ease-of-use, released at Dartmouth, Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
educational language, Cynthia Soloman, derives from the Greek Logos, word or thought -
B
Ken Thompson, for mini-computers, the name derived from BCPL -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth, programming and data structuring, named for Blaise Pascal, supports good programming practices -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah, S. Tucker Taft, object-oriented, high-level, named after Ada Lovelace -
SQL
Structured Query Language, ISO, domain-specific language. -
Python
Guido Van Rossum, for code-readability, general purpose -
Visual Basic
Microsoft, ease-of-use intended for creation, hence name Visual Basic -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf, originally for web development, general purpose -
Javascript
first in 1995, Brendan Eich, high-level, multi-paradigm -
ML
Meta-Language, has roots in Lisp, Robin Milner, general purpose -
Delphi
Anders Hejlsberg, event-driven programming language based on object pascal -
COBOL
used for business, finance, and administrative systems, English-like programming system, Common Business Oriented Language -
C++
C++17 in 2017, Bjarne Stroustrup, general purpose programming language -
C
C18 released in 2018, Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs, supports structured programming -
Fortran
Fortran 2018, John Backus, IBM, numerical computation and scientific programming, general-purpose -
Java
java 12 in 2019, James Gosling, general-purpose programming language, class based, object-oriented