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Fortran (Formula Translation)
John Backus intoduced this language as the first thrid generation computer language. This was the first computer language that could be witten in english (natural-language). -
MATH-MATIC
Rand Corporation released this, but it was not successful as it was a slower fortran. -
CBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)
Was popular for many years, as it was a joint project between the government and a private sector. Its two main goals were to be portable and readable so msot people could understand it like english. -
RPG (Report Programming Generator)
Its goal by IMB is to generate "informative large-scale reports from mainframe databases". -
LISP
John McCarthy released this originally created as a mathematical use for computer programs, but is now popular for AI research. -
Basic (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Develppoed in the mid 60's, basic is for use mainly by novices, or beginners just trying to learn programming. Is popular for home, and hobby use. -
LOGO
This was an easier to understand language to create computer graphics and place them on the screen.Used to create attractive and intricate designs. Was created by Daniel Bobrow -
B
Does not stand for anything, but was created by Bell Labs, and is virtually extinct as it was replaced by the "C" programing language. -
C
This was designed by Dennis M. Ritchie who was also at Bell Laboratories. This was for use on "minicomputers", but soon became used for even larger projects. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner, and is known for an algorithm, which can "infer the types of most expressions without requiring explicit type annotations." -
SQL
Its use, eliciting information from databases, is another laguage created by IBM, for the use of databsae management. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth created this language to teach programming, and is a simple language. -
C++
This computer language was made by Bjarne Stroustrup who again worked at Bell Labratories.This language is popular for large commercial projects, and is very difficult to learn. -
ADA
Developed in the early 1980s by Dr. Jean Ichbiah . Is used for large industrial programs, such as banking or government. -
Delphi
High-level languagewhich is based on Object Pascal. Prof. Niklaus Wirth was the one to indtroduce this language to what it is today. -
Python
Python is an open soucre, programming langueage developed by Guido van Rossum.Python inludes many of the modern features, os fast, as well as it supposed to be easy to learn. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Alan Cooper as an easy simple language to write programs for windows. -
Java
William Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems designed this language. This web based service would translate other languages into a way that this language could read. Its use with almost any computer made this a popular language -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf created this language to help with his personal webpage, and is now still used for the same use; the server side of web design. -
Plankalkul (Plan-Calculus)
Allowed the creation of procedures and structured data, as well as conditionals. -
Javascript
Brendan Eich created this language. It was intened to be a simpler Java, but is completely different. It is an objective based language that is used my most web browsers.