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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse developes Pankalkul (german for plan calculus) for engineering software. -
Fortran
John Backus developes Fortran(FORmula TRANslaing system) for use in computation heavy programs, such as weather prediction software. -
MATH-MATIC
Charles Katz led a group in developement of Math-Matic, which is a compiler for UNIVAC I & II. -
Lisp
John McCarthy developes Lisp for use in AI -
COBOL
Grace Hopper developes COBOL (COmmon Busiess-Oriented Language) for use in business applications. -
RPG
IBM developes RPG (Report Program Generator) for business applications. -
Basic
John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz develope BASIC (Begginer's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) as tool for students to more easily create their own software. -
Logo
Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert develope Logo to help teach programmer to students. The name, Logo, is deried from the greek word for thought. -
B
Ken Thompson developes B (a contraction of BCPL) for Bell. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth develoed Pascal to be an efficient programming language which would help to encourage good programming practices. It is named after the mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
C
Dennis Ritchie creates C, which is now often used in place of assembly languages. -
ML
ML (Meta Language) is developed by Robert Milner as a general purpose programming language. -
SQL
Donald D Chamberlin creates SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage data held in a "relational database management system". -
Ada
Jean Ichbiah makes Ada to replace the hundreds of different languages used by the Department of Defense. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup creates C++ which is widely used in system software, embedded software, device drivers, application software, and entertainment software. -
Python
Guido Van Rossum creates Python as a general purpose high-level programming language. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft developes Visual Basic to provide an easy way to rappidly produce GUI applications. -
Delphi
Delphi(a reference to the Oracle at Delphi) is developed by Borland to make standalone GUI programs and 32 bit console applications. -
Java
James Gosling makes Java, which is commonly used to write applications that can be used on multiple platforms. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich creates Javascript which is used primarily for server programming and web browsers. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf creates PHP for use in web development. PHP originally stood for 'Personal Home Page' but now stands for 'HyPertext Processor'