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Fortran
John Backus, IBM |
Numeric computation and scientific computing -
Lisp
Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, Mike Lein |
A.I. -
RPG
IBM |
business applications -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papart, Cynthia Solomon |
Teaching students how to program computers -
B
Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie |
System programming. -
Basic
John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz |
Create advanced programs -
C
Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs |
Allows access to bare bones of the computer. -
ML
Robin Milner |
A.I. -
ADA
Jean Ichbiac, Tucker Taft |
Missle control, Payroll Processing, air traffic control. -
C++
ISO, IEC |
Developing the suites of a game tool -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth |
encourage good programming practices using structured prog. and data structuring -
SQL
ISO, IEC |
managing data held in a relational database management system, stream processing in a relational data stream management system. -
COBAL
CODASYL, ANSI, ISO |
Business, Finance, Administrative Systems -
Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse |
engineering purposes -
Python
Guido Van Rossum |
code readability -
Visual Basic
Microsoft |
EXE files, DLL files, ActiveX controls -
PHP
Zend Technologies, Rasmus Lerdorf |
web development -
Java
James Gosling |
Enterprise business applications -
Delphi
Andes Heijsberg |
Rapid Application -
JavaScript
Brendon Eich, Netscale communication corporation |
client side scripting language -
Math-Matic
Remington Rand |
Provide algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic and arrays