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Plankalkul
Plankalkul, or Plan Calculus, was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level programming language. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed as an improvement to FORTRAN by Charles Katz in 1957. -
FORTRAN
The Formula Translating System, FORTRAN, is a programming langauge designed to handle computations. Its development was lead by John W Backus. -
LISP
LISP was devloped by John McCarthy as a Turin-complete algorithm language. -
RPG
Report Program Generator was developed by IBM to process punched cards in IBM computers. -
COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language, or COBOL, was developed by large DoD-headed group, including William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E Sammet. It was written for use in business computer systems. -
BASIC
Begging All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC, was written by John G Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz in 1964. Its purpose is to allow those not studying math or science to use computer programming. -
LOGO
LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzig, Daniel G Bobrow, and Seymour Papert as an educational software programming language. It was originally meant to teach the basics of LISP. -
B
Written by Ken Thompson circa 1969, no more accurate date to be found. It was designed for use in non-numeric system programming. -
PASCAL
PASCAL, named for French mathematician Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth as a languange to increase efficiency in programming. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973, and published in 1972. It was designed to be used in system programming. -
ML
Metalanguage, or ML, was developed by Robin Milner to prove computational theorems. -
SQL
Structured Query Language was developed by Donald C Chamberlin and Raymond F Boyce to process and manage memory. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah and named after Ada Lovelace. It was designed as a standard language, which was rare at the time. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup between 1979 and 1983. Its primary purpose is for system programming. -
Python
Guido van Rossum developed Python, a scripting language mostly used in web applications. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft as easy to use and understand programming software. Alan Cooper designed its drag-and-drop interface. -
Delphi
Delphi, referencing a Greek myth, was developed by Anders Hejlsberg as a software development tool. -
Java
Java was designed to let programmers write codes that could be used on any system. It was developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton. -
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, is a language developed for web design that was written by Rasmus Lerdorf. -
Javascript
Javascript is a programming language designed for use in webpages. It was developed by Brendan Eich.