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Fortran
Year developed: 1957
Developed by: John Backus and IBM
Used for: Scientific and engineering applications such as numerical weather prediction, computational physics, and many other applications. It is also the language used for programs that benchmark the world's fastest super computers. -
Math- Matic
Year developed: 1957
Developed by: A group led by Charles Katz
Used for: Used as an AT-3 compiler, intended to be an improvement over Fortran -
Cobol
Year developed: 1959
Developed by: Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
Used for: Primary application in businesses, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments
Stands for: Common Business-Oriented Language -
Basic
Year developed: 1964
Developed by: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Used for: Easy creation of programs to run on more powerful computers and was created as a more power replacement to Batch and programs designed in Batch
Stands for: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
Year developed: 1967
Developed by: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
Used for: Functional programming -
Pascal
Year developed: 1968-1969
Created by: Niklaus Wirth
Used for: Encouraging good programming using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
Year developed: 1969-1973
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie
Used for: Designed for implementing system software, widely used for developing portable application software -
SQL
Year developed: 1974
Developed by: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
Used for: Managing data in relational database management systems
Stands for: Structured Query Language -
C++
Year developed: 1979
Developed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Used for: Creation of system software, application software, device drivers, embedded software, high performance server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games -
Ada
Year developed: 1980
Developed by: Ada 83 - Jean Ichbiah
Ada 95 - Tucker Taft
Ada 2005 - Tucker Taft
Used for: Used mainly in mission-critical applications, such as avionics software because of its reliability -
Visual Basic
Year developed: 1991
Developed by: Microsoft
Used for: Quick and easy to learn creation of programs that integrated well with Windows -
Java
Year developed: 1995
Developed by: James Gosling at Sun Microsystems
Used for: Creating "write once, run anywhere" applications