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Plankalkul
Creator: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: engineering
Acronym: Means Plan Calculus -
FORTRAN
Creator: John Backus
Purpose: General purpose program suited for numeric computation and scientific computing.
Acronym: Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
Creator: Charles Katz
Purpose: created as a compiler for UNIVAC I AND UNIVAC II.
Acronym: N/A -
Lisp
Creator: John McCarthy
Purpose: Practical mathematical notation for computer programs
Acronym: LISt Processing -
RPG
Creator: IBM
Purpose: business applications (punching cards)
Acronym: Report Program Generator -
COBOL
Creators:Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
Purpose: Business use
Acronym: COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
BASIC
Creators: John Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz
Purpose: Allow those unskilled at coding to be able to create custom software.
Acroynm: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
Creator: Wally Feurzing & Seymour Papert
Purpose: Teach concepts of programming related to LISP
Acronym: N/A -
B
Creators: Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software
Acronym: N/A -
PASCAL
Creator: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
Acronym: Reference to Blaise Pascal -
C
Creators: Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson.
Purpose: General purpose
Acronym: N/A -
ML
Creator: Robin Milner
Purpose: General purpose
Acronym: metalanguage -
SQL
Creators: Donald Chamberlin & Raymond Boyce
Purpose: managing data held in a database
Acronym: Structured Query Language -
ADA
Creator: Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: Replace obsolete programs the the DoD utilized.
Acronym: Not quite an acronym but the name is a tribute to Ada Lovelace -
C++
Creator: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: General Purpose, but allowed for higher level features over C
Acronym: C (heavily influenced by C)++ (++ was the increment operator in C). -
Python
Creator: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: general purpose (high level however)
Acronym: N/A -
Visual Basic
Creator: Alan Cooper
Purpose: easy to learn how to program
Acronym: N/A -
Delphi
Creator: Borland
Purpose: Provide database connectivity
Acronym: Delphi is a reference to the Oracle -
Java
Creator; James Gosling
Purpose: designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
Acronym: Could be refering to coffee -
PHP
Creator: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Web Development/General Purpose
Acronym: Originally Personal Home Page, Now its PHP: Hypertext Perprocessor -
Javascript
Creator: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Used as part of web browsers
Acronym: N/A