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Plankalkul
Made by Konrad Zuse
Made for engineering purposes
Not an acronym -
Fortran
Stands for Formula Transporter
Designed by John Backus
Used for math computations -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper
Made for different algebraic-style expression then FLOW-MATIC -
Lisp
Stands for List Processor
Made for AI applications
Made by John McCarthy -
COBOL
Stands for Common Business Oriented Business
Made for Business applications on large computers
Developed by Grace Hopper -
RPG
Short for Report Program Generator
Developed by IBM
Made to develop reports from data -
BASIC
BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Instruction Code. It was developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz. BASIC is used for business applications -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon
Not an ancronym
Was made to teach concepts of programming related to LISP -
B
B was made for system and language software, it was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. -
PASCAL
developed by Niklaus Wirth
Named after Blaise Pascal
Used for teaching -
ML
Used for programming language research
ML means Meta Language
Made by Robert Milner -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie for the purpose of being a systems programming language. C doesn't stand for anything -
SQL
Stands for Structured Query Language
Designed by IBM
Used as a query language for database management systems -
ADA
ADA was made by the U.S Congress for general purposes from business to rocket guidance. It was named after Augusta Ada Byron. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Used for graphical applications
It stands for nothing -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft
the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces
It stands for nothing -
Java
Developed by Sun Microsystems
Designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum
Named after Monty Python's Flying Circus
Made to be easily readable and help small scale programmers -
PHP
Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
created by Rasmus Lerdorf
used to make websites -
Delphi
Developed by Embarcadero Technologies
Made for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software
Doesn't stand for anything -
Javascript
Developed by Netscape
Made to design interactive sites