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Plankalkul
created by Konrad Zuse
Created to be used for a computer and it was the first high-level programming language for computers.
Named after the German word Kalkul which means formal system -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Chares Katz
Created as an improvement over FORTRAN -
Fortran
Created by John Backus and IBM
Created for numeric computation and scientific computing
Name is short for Formula translation -
COBOL
created by Howard Bromberg, Norman Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
It was created as a portable programming language for data processing -
Lisp
John McCarthy
Created to be used as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
The name derived from "LISt Processor" -
BASIC
Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Created as a general computer for everyone to use for business and other academics
Named after an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert
It's used for functional programming and basic shapes
Named after Greek logos, meaning word or thought -
B
Created by Ken Thompson
Created with the purpose of using for non-numeric, machine applications
Named after BCPL -
Pascal
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Created to teach structured programming
Named after the French mathematician, Blaise Pascal -
ML
Created by Robin Milner
Created to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
Stands for Meta Language -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan
Created with the purpose of constructing utilities running on Unix
Named C because it succeeds a previous language called B -
RPG
Created by IBM
Created with the purpose of business applications and enhancing software
Name stands for Report Program Generator -
SQL
Created by Donald D Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
Created with the purpose of manipulating data sets
Called Sequel in the past which stood for Structured English Query Language, it was then shortened. -
ADA
John Ichbiah a
Made to improve code safety and maintainability
Named it after the person who was the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace -
Python
Created by Guido Van Rossum
Created with the purpose of improving code safety
Was named after "Monty Python's Flying Circus" -
Visual Basic
Created by Alan Cooper
Created with the purpose of making programming easier for Windows -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich
Created to simplify Java for informal programmers and designers -
Java
created by James Gosling
Created with the purpose of letting consumer electronic devices communicate with each other
Named after Java coffee from Indonesia -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
Created with the purpose of web development use
Name stands for Personal Home Page -
Delphi
Created by Anders Hejlsberg
Created with the purpose of building WIndow applications -
C++
created by Bjarne Stroustrup
created as an extension language to C that provided high-level features
named as the extension of C++