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COBOL
COBOL, also known as common business-oriented language, was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. COBOL was designed to be self-documenting and highly readable. -
BASIC
BASIC, also known as Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It was designed for students to easily understand a programing language. -
B
Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie developed B at Bell Labs. B was made for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. B came from a previously used program called BCPL used in the Multis project. -
C
It was developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bel Labs. It was meant to re-implement the Unix operating system, but later became the most widely used computer program. C was chosen as an name as it was the next letter after B. -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull lead a team who created ADA. ADA was named after the first programer Ada Lovelace. Its purpose was to take place of 450 old programs used by the DoD. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. It was designed as an extension of C so it could be more efficient and flexible similar to C. Since C++ is an extension of C, thats were the name came from. -
Delphi
Delphi was originally made by Borland, but later was bought by Embarcadero Technologies. -
Fortran
It was developed by IBM.