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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse.
Used for engineering purposes.
Acronym is Plan Calculus. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus.
Used mainly for numeric computation and scientific computing.
Derived from Formula Translation. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand.
Was mainly used for the UNIVAC systems.
No acronym. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy.
Favored language for artificial intelligence.
Used to be LISP. -
COBOL
Designed by Howard Bromberg.
Used mainly for business, financial, and administrative systems.
COBOL is an acronym for common business-oriented language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM.
Used mainly for business.
Acronym is Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Designed by John G. Kemeny.
Used to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig.
Used mainly for education.
No acronym. -
B
Designed by: Ken Thompson.
B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
B may be a contraction of BCPL. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth.
Used for object-oriented programming.
No acronym. -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie.
Has been used for applications and operating systems.
No acronym. -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner.
Used mainly for programming language research.
Acronym is Meta Language. -
SQL
Designed by Raymond F. Boyce.
Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system.
Acronym is Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah.
Improved support for systems, numerical, financial, and OOP.
Not an acronym. -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
Used mainly for system programming.
No acronym. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft.
Used mainly in education.
No acronym. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum.
Used for general purpose programming.
No acronym. -
Delphi
Designed by the company Borland.
Used mainly for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.
No acronym. -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
Used for web development.
Acronym is Personal Home Page. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling.
Designed so that you write the code once and can use it on any computer that is a Java Virtual Machine.
Java has no acronym. -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich.
Used mainly for web applications.
Can be abbreviated to JS.