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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse. Means "Plain Calculus" in German. Used for calculus processing. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus while he worked at IBM. Made for numeric and scientific computing. Derived from Formula Translating System. (FORTRAN) -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Charles Katz. Used for the first UNIVACs and was intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. MATH-MATIC was the marketing name for AT-3 Compliler. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy. Made to be a practical mathematical notation for computer programs and is the favored language for AI. Second oldest language still used today. Stands for LISt Processing. -
Cobol
Created by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, and is used in business, finance, and administrative systems. -
RPG
Created by IBM for business applications. Stands for Report Program Generator. -
Basic
Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Designed to be an easy programming tool. Now known as Microsoft Visual Basic -
Logo
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Designed to be an educational programming language. NOT an acronym, but is derived from the greek word logos meaning thought. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs circa 1969. Was designed for non-numeric, machine independent applications. -
SQL
Created by ISO/IEC. Stands for Structured Query Language. Designed to be a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. -
Pascal
Created by Niklaus Wirth. Designed to be structured programming language. Was used to make object PASCAL. -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs. Many modern programming languages are based off of 'C'. Designed to prevent uninteneded operations. -
ML
Created by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. Made as a genral purpose language for developing proof tactics in the LCF theorem power. Stands for Metalanguage. -
ADA
Named after Ada Lovelace. Developed by Jean Ichbiah for the US military. Appeared in 1980. Used to supersede the hundreds of programs used by the DoD. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Used fpr system programming and is one of today's standard languages. -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum. Used as a general-purpose, high level programming language. An easy to use language with fewer lines of code needed. -
Visual Basic
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Java
Created by James Gosling at Oracle Corperation. Designed to be a language that worked on every system. -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed to be a server-side scripting language for web deveopment. Originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now means Hypertext preprocessor. -
Delphi
Created by the company Borland in 1995. Was bought by Embarcadero in 2009. It is an integrated development environment use in consoles, desktop graphical and web/mobile applications. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich. Designed to be a dynamic programming language for web browsers. Not related to Java.