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Plankalkul
First published by Konrad Zuse and was the world's first complete high level language. -
Fortran
Developed by IBM programmers led by John Backus. Acronym for FORmula TRANslation being that it was designed for easy translation of math formulas into code. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Grace Hopper and provided algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy and designed as a mathematical formalism for reasoning about the use of recursion equations. -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper. Reads like regular english and more so used for business and administrative purposes. -
RPG
Developed by IBM and generates informative large scale reports from mainframe databases. -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeney and Thomas E. Kurtz. Basic allows a wide range of applications. -
LOGO
Developed by Seymour Papert and originally designed to introduce kids to programming concepts. -
B
Developed at Bells Lab circa by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Designed for non-numeric applications which is system programming. -
PASCAL
Named in honor of Blaise Pascal but was developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming. -
C
Developed by Dennis M. Ritchie. Contained a powerful mix of high level functionality and detailed features to program a operating system. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner, stands for metalanguage, and designed to implement a automatic theorem solver. -
SQL
Abbreviation for Structured Query Language, developed by IBM, and designed to store, manipulate, and query data stored in relational databases. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed to make writing good programs easier. -
ADA
Developed by Augusta Ada Lovelace and designed for long-lived applications and embedded systems. -
Visual Basic
Developed by the Microsoft Corporation in 1990 and intended for application development. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum, usable as an extension language for applications that need programming interfaces, and portable across major hardware and software platforms. -
Delphi
Developed by bordland and is a native code compiler. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling and designed to be compiled to a bytecode. -
JavaScript
Developed by Netscape and started as a scripting language. -
PHP
Recursive acronym for Hypertext Processor, developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, and capable of database interaction and providing a framework to develop applications such as guestbooks.