1.2 Extra Credit - Cate Shepard

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  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Plankalkul means plan calculus.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz for science and engineering purposes

  • FORTRAN

    Developed by John Backus for mathematical and engineering purposes. The name FORTRAN comes from FORmula TRANslation.

  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy (MIT) for easy manipulation of data strings. Lisp gets its name from "list processing".

  • COBOL

    Developed by Grace Hopper for business/administrative purposes.COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM, purpose is report-building program, acronym for Report Program Generator

  • BASIC

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Used by students to write simple programs. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Purpose is generating basic shapes and functional programming. Acronym is Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie. Created for non-numeric system programming.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner (University of Edinburgh) to operate on formal languages. ML is an acronym for Meta Language.

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Primary purpose is for teaching programming. PASCAL is an acronym for Preservation And Storage Center For Academic Libraries

  • C

    Developed by Dennis M. Ritchie as general-purpose program for scripting system applications.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Purpose is fast, portable programs.

  • SQL

    Developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin (IBM) to perform tasks like updating and retrieving data from databases. Acronym for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah (CII-Honeywell-Bull), created for large, long-lived applications. The name ADA is in honor of Ada Lovelace.

  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum for general purposes.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Alan Cooper (Microsoft). Purpose is to be able to drag and drop to modify code, efficiency.

  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, suited for server-side web development. Originally an acronym for Personal Home Page. Now, acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor.

  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich (Netscape Communications Corp.) for attractive and responsive web development.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for object oriented design

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling (Sun Microsystems) for general purposes and cross-platform programming.