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Plankalkül
*Developed By: Konrad Zuse
*Purpose: One of the world's first high-level programming language. It can use many data types such as arrays, points, and lists. -
Fortran
*Developer: John Backus
*Purpose: Backus wanted a more useful substitute to assembly programming
*Also known as Formula Translating System -
Lisp
*Developer: John McCarthy
*Purpose: Originally for mathimatical computer programs, but was later used for Artificial Intelligence. -
COBOL
*Creator: Grace Hopper
*Purpose: Created for business applications
*Stands for: Common Business Oriented Language -
RPG
*Developer: IBM
*Purpose: It was at first created for punch card machines. It is now used to generate reports.
*RPG stands for "Report Program Generator". -
BASIC
*Developer: John George Kemeny, Thomas Eugene Kurtz
*Purpose: It was made for the students of Kemeny and Kurttz so they can write programs for the Darthmouth Time-Sharing System
*Stands for: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
*Developer: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
*Purpose: Adapted from Lisp and can also help teach computer science. -
B
*Developed By: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
*Purpose: It was made for non-numeric programs. -
PASCAL
*Developer: Niklaus Wirth
*Purpose: It was created to help make more-organized programs and also to help teach programming. -
C
*Developer: Dennis Ritchie
*Purpose: Useful for many programs and even encouraged cross-platform programming -
ML
*Developer: Robin Milner
*Purpose: Uses Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm.
*Stands for metalanguage -
SQL
*Developed By: E. F. Codd
*Purpose: It is the model of relational database management systems. -
ADA
*Developed By: DoD
*Purpose: The Department of Defense wanted a new language that can be used for programming a variety of things -
C++
*Developer: Bjarne Stroustrup
*Purpose: Adds object-oriented features to the C language -
Delphi
*Developer: Apple, Anders Hejlsberg
*Purpose: Extension to the Pascal language
*Also known as Object Pascal -
MATH-MATIC
*Developer: Charles Katz
*Purpose: It had free-form English and Algebriac statements. -
Python
*Developer: Guido Van Rossum
*Purpose: Python uses clear and understandable syntax as well as system calls. -
Visual Basic
*Developer: Alan Cooper
*Purpose: It was built as a form building application. It was a build-on to BASIC. -
PHP
*Developer: Rasmus Lerdorf
*Purpose: It was capable of database interaction. Users were also able to fix bugs in the code and even improve it. -
Java
*Developer: James Gosling
*Purpose: Originally for digital mobile devices -
Javascript
*Developer: Brendan Eich
*Purpose: It's an object-oriented scripting language.