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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse
Plankalkul means "Plan Calculus" -
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Programming Languages Timeline
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Fortran
Fortran was made by John Backus
The word Fortran is derived from the phrase "Formula Translation" -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand -
Lisp
Lisp was designed by John McCarthy -
COBOL
COBOL was designed by Howard Bromberg.
COBOL is an acronym for "common business-oriented language" -
RPG
Designed by IBM
RPG stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
BASIC was made by John G. Kemeny. I couldn't find anything on why it was named BASIC, as it says it's a pretty complicated programming language. -
Logo
Logo was designed by Wally Feurzeig
Logo is named after the word in greek, which means word or thought. -
B
B Language was developed by Ken Thompson, at Bell Labs. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth
PASCAL was named after the mathematician, Blaise Pascal -
C
C Language was created by Dennis Ritchie -
ML
ML was designed by Robin Milner
ML stands for "Meta Language" -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
SQL means Structured Query Language -
ADA
ADA was made by Jean Ichbiah. It was named after Ada Lovelance, who is "The First Computer Programmer" -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft -
DELPHI
DELPHI was created by Anders Hejlsberg -
Java
Java was designed by James Gosling -
JavaScript
JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf
PHP is the shortened version of "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"