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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes and means "Plan Calculus" or "formal system for planning". -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus for scientific and engineering applications and is derived from Formula Translation. -
Math-Matic
Developed by Remington Rand to provide algebraic-style expressions & floating point arithmetic & arrays for UNIVAC 1 & 2; the name was from Flow-Matic but with more Math. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs and derived from LISt Processor. -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper to create a portable programming language for data processing and is the acronym Common Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM to recreate punched card processing on the IBM 1401 and is the acronym Report Program Generator. -
Basic
Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz so students can write mainframe computer programs for Dartmouth Time-sharing System and is the acronym Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig to teach Lisp related programming & "body-syntonic reasoning" and means logos in Greek or "thought". -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for "recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications" and derived from BCPL. -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming practices using structured programming & data structuring and was named in honor of Blaise Pascal. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie to re-implement the Unix operating system and was named because C comes after B alphabetically. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF Theorum Prover and is the acronym Meta Language. -
SQL
Developed by Donald Chamberlin & Raymond Boyce to manage data held in a Rational Database Management System and is the acronym Structured Query Language. -
Ada
Developed by Jean Ichbiah to usurp 450+ programming languages used by DoD and was named after Ada Lovelace, who was credited as the first computer programmer. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup to add features to C for program organization and was named for the evolutionary changes to C. -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum as a successor to the ABC Language with exception handling & interfacing with Amoeba and wa snamed after the "Monty Python Flying Circus". -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft to accommodate a steep learning curve and was named of a combination between Ruby interface generator and the "Basic" language. -
Delphi
Developed by Anders Hejlsberg as a rapid application development tool for windows & is the successor of Turbo Pascal and is a reference to the "Oracle at Delphi" -
Java
Developed by James Gosling to allow application developers to "write once,run anywhere" and was named after Java Coffee. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development and is the acronym Personal Home Page. -
Javascript
Developed by Brenden Eich to make webpages interactive & provide online programs and was named to make it a complimentary scripting language to go with Java.