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Plankalkul
Year: 1948 (First Released)
People: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Plankalkul was designed for engineering purposes. It was the first high-level programming language designed for a computer -
FORTAN
Year: 1957 (First Released)
People: John Backus, IBM
Purpose: Fortran is used for numeric computation and scientific computing
Acronym: Formula Translation -
MATH-MATIC
Year: 1957 (First Released)
People: Remington Rand
Purpose: A business-oriented language that provided algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic, in arrays
Acronym: The marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler -
LISP
Year: 1958 (First Released)
People: Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Purpose: Lisp was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
COBOL
Year: 1959 (First Released)
People: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
Purpose: COBOL is a compiled english like computer programming language designed for business use
Acronym: Common Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Year: 1959 (First Released)
People: IBM
Purpose: RPG was a tool designed to replicate punched card processing
Acronym: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Year: 1964 (First Released)
People: John G. Kenemy, Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: It was made for easy use and so that anyone can (learn to) program
Acronym: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Year: 1967 (First Released)
People: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Purpose: Originally created to teach programming related to Lisp. -
B
Year: 1969 (First Released)
People: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software -
PASCAL
Year: 1970 (First Released)
People: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: PASCAL was designed to be a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices
Acronym: In honor of the French Mathematician and Philosopher Blaise Pascal -
C
Year: 1972
People: Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
Purpose: C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions -
ML
Year: 1973 (First Released)
People: Robin Miller, University of Edinburgh
Purpose: It was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
Acronym: MetaLanguage -
SQL
Year: 1974 (First Released)
People: Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose:
Acronym: Structured Query Language -
ADA
Year: 1980 (First Released)
People: Jean Ichbiah (created ADA 83), Tucker Taft (ADA-95,2005,2012)
Purpose: Ada improves code safety and maintainability by using the compiler to find errors in favor of runtime errors
Acronym: No Acronym, but is named after Ada Lovelace; the first programmer -
C++
Year: 1983 (First Released)
People: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: It was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use -
Pyhton
Year: 1991 (First Appeared)
People: Guido Van Rossum
Purpose: Python was created for general-purpose programming. -
Visual Basic
Year: 1991 (First Appeared)
People: Microsoft
Purpose: Visual Basic derived from BASIC and was designed to be easy for people to learn how to program -
Java
Year: 1995 (First Released)
People: Developed- Sun Microsystems
Purpose: Java was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible -
Delphi
Year: 1995 (First Released)
People: Borland
Purpose: Delphi is a programming language and software development kit (SDK) for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications -
JavaScript
Year: 1995 (First Released)
People: Developed-Netscape Communications. Corp., Mozilla Foundation, Ecma Int.
Purpose: (Alongside HTML and CSS) Javascript is one of the three core technologies of World Wide Web content production -
PHP
Year: 1995 (First Appeared)
People: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: PHP was designed primarily for web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language
Acronym: Hypertext Preprocessor (Originally Personal Home Page)