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Plankalkül
Developer(s): Konrad Zuse. Purpose: Created for Engineering. Name: German, "Plan Calculus" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl -
Fortran
Developer(s): John Backus & IBM. Purpose: Scientific computing. Name: Originated from Formula Translation. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran -
MATH-MATIC
Developer(s): Charles Katz, Grace Hopper, & Remington Rand. Purpose: A early version of the programming language used for the UNIVAC (I & II). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC -
Lisp
Developer(s): Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, & Mike Levin. Purpose: Mathematical notation. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) -
COBOL
Developer(s): CODASYL, ANSI, ISO. Purpose: Use for business's. Acronym: Common Business-Oriented Langauge Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL -
RPG
Developer(s): IBM. Purpose: Created for business applications. Acronym: Report Program Generator.
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Basic
Developer(s): John G. Kemeny & Thomas E. Kurtz. Purpose: Make it possible for everyone to use computers, not just those in the field of mathematics and science. Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC -
LOGO
Developer(s): Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert. Purpose: To teach programming concepts. Name: Originated for the term Logos. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) -
B
Developer(s): D. M. Ritchie & K. L. Thompson. Purpose: Created for system and language software. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) -
PASCAL
Developer(s): Niklaus Wirth. Purpose: To motivate the use of good programming practices. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language) -
C
Developer(s): Dennis Ritchie. Purpose: Implementing Unix OS again. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) -
ML
Developer(s): Robin Milner. Purpose: Created as a proof tactic. Acronym: MetaLanguage. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) -
SQL
Developer(s): ISO/IEC. Purpose: Managing Data. Acronym: Structured Query Language. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL -
ADA
Developer(s): Jean Ichbiah. Purpose: Reinforces code safety. Named after the first programmer, Ada Lovelace. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) -
C++
Developer(s): Bjarne Stroustrup. Purpose: For system programming. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B -
Visual Basic
Developer(s): Microsoft. Purpose: Allows beginners to program. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic -
Python
Developer(s): Guido Van Rossum (Python Software Foundation). Purpose: So programmers can show concepts in a smaller amount of lines of codes. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl -
Delphi
Developer(s): Embarcadero Technologies, Borland. Purpose: A development kit that is rapid. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language) -
Java
Developer(s): James Gosling (Sun Microsystems) Purpose: To have little dependencies. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) -
Javascript
Developer(s): Brendan Eich (Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, & Ecma International). Purpose: Script for websites, video games, etc. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript -
PHP
Developer(s): Rasmus Lerdorf (Zend Technologies). Purpose: Web development. Acronym: Hypertext Preprocessor. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP