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Plankalkul
Designed by: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Engineering -
Fortran
Designed By: John Backus and IBM
Purpose: Numeric computation and scientific computing. -
MATH-MATIC (AT-3)
Designed By: Remington Rand
Purpose: Business -
Lisp
Designed by: John McCarthy
Purpose: Artificial intelligence research. -
RPG (Report Program Generator)
Designed By: IBM
Purpose: Business applications -
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Designed By: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
BASIC is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. -
LOGO
Designed by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: Symbolic computing -
B
Program B was created by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications. (per wikipedia.com) -
PASCAL
Designed By: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: Imperative and procedural programming language -
C
Designed By: Denis Ritchie
Purpose: Software and apps -
ML (MetaLanguage)
Designed By: Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh
Purpose: pattern matching for function arguments, garbage collection, imperative programming, call-by-value, and currying. -
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Designed By: Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: Handling structured data -
ADA
ADA was created by Jean Ichbiah. ADA is widely used in critical systems, where any anomaly might lead to very serious consequences -
C++
Designed By: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: C++ was created as an extension of the C programming language. -
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
Designed By: US Department of Defense
Purpose: Used mainly for business, finance. -
Python
Designed By: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: Code readability and use of significant white space -
Visual Basic
Developed By: Microsoft
Purpose: Creating applications -
Delphi
Designed By: Anders Hejlsberg
Purpose: application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software -
PHP
Designed By: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Web development. -
Java
Designed By: Sun Microsystems & James Gosling
Purpose: An object-oriented programming language
successor to C++ -
Javascript
Designed by: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Javascript is the backbone of the World Wide Web.