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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse, it's Primary purpose is for engineering projects. It was the first high level programming language -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus, It's primary purpose was numeric computation and scientific computing, serving in fields such as weather and chemistry. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Grace Hopper, this language was intended as an improvement over Fortran, and was used with the UNIVAC I & II. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy, it's main uses were in mathematical notation and artificail intelligence. LISP is a stand in for LISt Processing. -
COBOL
Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney, this programming language is mostly used for businesses. COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Developed by IBM, this programming languages major use was to replace the punch card system of the IBM 1401. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
Basic
Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, this programming language was mainly focused on ease of use for beginners. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, this programming language was remembered mainly for it's turtle graphics. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, this programming language focuses on system and language software. -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth, this programming language was general purpose and was made to encourage good programming practices -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie, this is a general purpose programming language. -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh, this programming language is remembered for it's work on Hindley–Milner type inference algorithms. ML stands for metalanguage. -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce, this programming language was designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language -
ADA
Designed originally by Jean Ichbiah, ADA was made to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD. -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup, this programming language is a general prupose language biased towards system programming. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum, Python is a general purpose programming language focused on ease of use and readablity. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, Visual Basic is a programming lanugage focused on rapid application developement of GUI inteface applications. It stemmed from BASIC, which stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is also the language we will be using in this class. -
Delphi
Designed originally by Borland, Delphi is and integrated development environment (IDE) with multi-platform support. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling, Java is a general purpose programming language that focuses on the philosophy of WORA, or "write once, read anywhere". -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich, Javascript is a language focused on developement for content on the World Wide Web. -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP is a server side web development language. PHP stood for Personal Home Page originally, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.