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Plankalkul
It was developed by Konrad Zuse, during 1942-45. It was created for engineering purposes. "Kalkül is the German term for a formal system—as in Hilbert-Kalkül, the original name for the Hilbert-style deduction system—so Plankalkül refers to a formal system for planning." -
Fortran
It was made by John Backus. It has been used for such projects as the design of bridges and aeroplane structures, it is used for factory automation control, for storm drainage design, analysis of scientific data and so on."Fortran" is short for "Formula Translation". -
MATH-MATIC
It was made by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper. It opens the way for programmers and non-programmers alike to a wide range of mathematical computer applications. MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler. -
Lisp
It was made by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Lisp can be used for any type of application, but it is of particular interest for Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and other forms of advanced programming which require recursive logic. LISP is an acronym for list processing. -
COBOL
It was developed by Howard Bromberg, Norman Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. The name stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
It was developed by IBM. It is used for business applications. The name means Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
It was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Its purpose is to provide a way for students to write simple computer programs. The name stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" -
LOGO
It was made by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon. It is used for generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor. Logo is not an acronym, it derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought. -
B
It was developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. The programming language was developed primarily for non-numeric applications such as system programming. B was derived from BCPL. -
PASCAL
It was made by Niklaus Wirth. It is intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honour of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal. -
C
It was made by Dennis Ritchie. Everything from microcontrollers to operating systems is written in C. It was named C because it came after B. -
ML
It was developed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. It provides pattern matching for function arguments, garbage collection, imperative programming, call-by-value and currying. The name means Meta Language. -
ADA
The language was developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft. It is a general-purpose programming language that is used from missile control to payroll processing to air traffic control. It was named after Augusta Ada King. -
C++
It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It can be used to develop operating systems, browsers, games, and so on. C++ was originally called 'C with classes,' and was built as an extension of the C language. -
SQL
It was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It is the standard language for relational database management systems and is used to perform tasks such as update data on a database, or retrieve data from a database. SQL is an abbreviation for structured query language. -
Python
It was developed by Guido van Rossum. You can use the programming language for developing both desktop and web applications. It was named after the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus. -
Visual Basic
It was developed by Microsoft. You can create macros to automate repetitive word- and data-processing functions, and generate custom forms, graphs, and reports. The name is not an acronym nor does it mean anything else. -
Delphi
The developer is Anders Hejlsberg. It is primarily used to build applications for Windows systems but can be used to build applications for a variety of operating systems. It got its name from the name of an oracle. -
Java
It was developed by James Gosling. It's used for developing mobile and desktop applications, big data processing, embedded systems, and so on. Named after Java coffee. -
PHP
It was made by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP can be used for many programming tasks outside of the web context, such as standalone graphical applications and robotic drone control. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. -
JavaScript
It was created by Brendan Eich. It is used primarily by Web browsers to create a dynamic and interactive experience for the user. The team changed the name to JavaScript to reflect Netscape's support of Java within its browser.