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Plankalkul
Designed for engineering purposes.
Created by: Konrad Zuse -
Fortran
Created for scientists and engineers in order to aid them in projects such as bridge designs, aeroplanes, etc.
Created by: John Backus
Originally was referred to as FORTRAN, short for formula translation. -
MATH-MATIC
Used for functional programming.
Created by: Remington Rand -
Lisp
Designed for easy manipulation of data strings.
Created by: John McCarthy
Short for list processing. -
RPG
Used for business applications.
Created by: IBM
Short for Report Program Generator -
COBOL
It is a computer language that is designed for business.
Created by: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Mary K. Hawes
Short for Common Business-Oriented Language -
BASIC
Purpose is to be able to create custom software without the use of advanced science and math skills.
Short for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Created by: John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz -
LOGO
Used for functional programming and generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor.
Created by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Not an acronym, short for Logos. -
PASCAL
Developed for teaching programming and developing reliable and efficient programs.
Created by: Niklaus Worth -
B
Designed for non-numeric programming processes such as system programming.
Created by: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Short for BCPL -
C
Purpose is often to code instructions for machines.
Created by: Dennis Ritchie -
ML
It is a general-purpose functioning programming language.
Created by: Robin Milner -
Ada
A general-purpose programming language that is used for a variety of things.
Created by: Jean Ichbiah, S. Tucker Taft -
C++
The purpose often is software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications.
Created by: Bjarne Stroustrup -
SQL
Designed to manage data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.
Created by: Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Short for Structured Query Language -
Python
Used for the development of desktop GUI applications, websites and web applications.
Created by: Guido van Rossum -
Delphi
Designed for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software.
Created by: Anders Hejlsberg -
Java
Designed to develop and run programs.
Created by: James Gosling, Sun Microsystems -
PHP
Used to create dynamic web page content or dynamic images used on websites or other platforms.
Created by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Originally stood for Personal Home Page. -
JavaScript
A scripting language that can do a variety of things such as implementing complex features on web pages.
Created by: Brendan Eich -
Visual Basic
Used to allow programmers to modify code by dragging and dropping objects and defining their behavior and appearance.
Created by: Microsoft