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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse
First high level programming language excluding von Neumman. -
Fortran - Formula Translating System
John W. Backus
Speed programming. -
Math-Matic
Charles Katz
Purpose was to be an improvement on Fortran. -
Lisp - Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol
John McCarthy
First designed as a mathematical notation. -
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language
CODASYL committe
Used in business and finance. -
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
John George Kemeny
It was designed to be easy to use. -
RPG - Report Program Generator
IBM
Used to replicate punch cards. -
LOGO
Seymour Papert
Used turtle graphics. Turtle graphics are like a little robot that students and programmers could look at to predict what would happen. -
B
Ken Thompson
Designed for recursive non numeric functions like language. -
Pascal
Niklaus Wirth
Small language that encouraged good programming practices, -
SQL - structured query language
IBM
Used primarily to store data. -
C
Dennis Ritchie
Used as a general language, used for as many purposes as possible. -
ML - metalanguage
Robin Milner
Used to develop proofs. -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah - There have been many forms of ada but the first one was used primarily for defensive reasons. -
Python
Guido van Rossum
Meant to be simple and brief. -
Visual Basic
Alan Cooper
Intended to be easy to use and learn. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich
Used as part of web browsers. -
DELPHI
Anders Hejlsberg
Rapid Application development tool -
Java
James Gosling
Built to run anywhere as long as you have java. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf
Can be used and mixed with html code. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup
A high level but efficient language.