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Plankalkül
Developed by Konrad Zuse. Designed for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Acronym for Formula Translating System. Developed by IBM and John Backus, and used for scientific and numeric computing. -
MATH-MATIC
Marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. Intended as improvement over FORTRAN. Created by group, led by Charles Katz. -
Lisp
Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin. Second oldest programming language in use today, Fortran being the oldest. Used for mathematical notation of computer programs. -
COBOL
Acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language.
Designed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO for business use, finance use, and administrative systems. -
RPG
Developed by IBM, and designed for business applications. -
BASIC
Acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. The software was used used to help businesses make custom programs for an affordable cost. -
Logo
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. An educational programming language which produces movement and drawing of lines. -
B
Built at Bell Labs around 1969, by Ken Thompson and Dennie Richie
This was a programming language that Thompson used for Multics. -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth, intended for use to encourage good programming practices, using data structuring and structured programming. -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie. Used to re-implement the UNIX operating system. -
ML
Acronym for Metalanguage. Developed by Robin Milner and designed to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
ADA
Built by Jean Ichbiah for U.S. Department of Defense between 1977-1983.
Named after Ada Lovelace, who was named the first computer programmer. -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed toward system programming (operating systems or embedded systems). -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft and used for easy-to-create applications. -
Python
Developed by Python Software Foundation. Designed to allow programmers to express concept in fewer lines of code. -
Delphi
First designed by Borland, and then was sold to Embarcadero Technologies, and used to make programs. -
Java
Developed by Oracle. Intended to be used on all platforms without having to be recompiled to another. -
JavaScript
Developed by Netscape Communications Corporation and Mozilla Foundation, and is used to let scripts interact with the user and control the webpage. -
PHP
Developed by The PHP Group. Designed for web development and used as a general purpose programming language. -
SQL
Acronym for Structured Query Language. Developed by ISO/IEC in 1974. Use for database management.