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Plankalkül Programming Language
Designed by Konrad Zuse. It was made for engineering purposes and was also used as the first programming language in a computer. -
FORTRAN Programming Language
Published in 1957 by a team of programmers at IBM (led by John Backus). FORTRAN is short for Formula Translation, and was the first high level language to be developed. Often called the "scientific language". -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand for the purpose of containing numeric exponents. -
Lisp Computer Programming Language
Designed by John McCarthy as a mathematical notation language for computer programs. Lisp comes from the term LISt Processor. -
COBOL
Designed by CODASYL in a contracted the the Department of Defense for data processing. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. -
IBM RPG Programming Language
Designed by IBM, as a tool to replicate punched card processing. Stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC Programming Language
Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Was made to be easy to learn, and general use code. Visual Basic is founded on BASIC. -
Logo Programming Language
Designed by Wally Feurzeig for drawing line graphics on screen with a robot or turtle. Is a subset of Lisp. -
B Programming Language
Developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Designed for letter only machine ran applications, such as system software. -
Pascal Programming Language
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Designed to be a small programming language to teach good programming practices using data structuring. -
C Programming Language
Designed by Dennis Ritchie. Its primary strengths are in system programming and cross-platform programming. -
ML Programming Language
Designed by Robert Milner. The ML stands for MetaLanguage. It was made to develop proof tactics. -
SQL Programming Language
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin, and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. Made for data insertion, query's, updating, and schema creation. -
Ada Programming Language
Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah. They were contracted by the US department of defense to make the language to supersede over 450 programming languages used by them at the time. Specializes in Strong Typing and parallel processing. Name comes from Ada Lovelace, the woman who was the first computer programmer. -
C++ Programming Language
Developed in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrap, but published in 1983. Its flexible as to what it can do, but its strengths are in both software development and applications. -
Visual Basic Programming Language
Designed by Microsoft. It is a successor to BASIC, and is made for beginners to computer programming. -
Delphi Programming Language
Designed by Borland as a application development tool for windows. Currently used in several windows platforms such as x86 and x64. -
Java Programming Language
Designed by James Gosling. It is a general purpose language that is designed to run on any platform that supports Java. -
JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich. Usually used to designed websites, and is one of the three most important technologies used on the WWW (World Wide Web) besides HTML and CSS. Famous for being developed in 10 days. -
PHP Programming Language
Designed by Lasmus Lerdorf. Made to be embedded into HTML code and is used as a general purpose programming language. PHP stands for Personal Home Page. -
Python Programming Language
Designed by Van Rossum. Made as a successor to ABC. Used for exception handling.