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Plankalkul was designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse. It is the oldest high level programming language designed for a computer.
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Fortran was developed by IBM for scientific and Engineering applications.
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MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. MATH-MATIC was designed by a team led by Charles Katz.
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Lisp was designed by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
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COBOL is an acronym for Common Business-Orientated Language. COBOL was designed by CODASYL to create a portable programming language for data processing for the US Department of Defense.
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RPG was designed by IBM for business applications. RPG stands for Report Programming Generator.
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Basic was designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to be simple and easy to use.
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Logo was designed by Wally Feurzeig to be an educational programming language. Logo derives from the Greek Logos.
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B was developed at Bell labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications.
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Pascal was designed by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honor of the french mathematician Blaise Pascal.
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C was designed by Dennis Ritchie to make utilities running on Unixs
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ML (or Meta Language) is a general purpose functional programming language designed by a team at the university of Edinburgh led by Robin Milner.
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SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a domain specific programming language and is designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. SQL was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
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Ada is named after Ada Lovelace who is considered to be the first computer programmer
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C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup for system programming with performance, efficiency, and flexibility.
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Python was created by Guido van Rossum as a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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Virtual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language developed by Microsoft. Virtual Basic is intended to be easy to learn and use.
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Delphi was designed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows.
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Java is designed as a general-purpose programming language by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
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Javascript was designed by Brendan Eich to be a high level, just-in-time compiled, multi-paradigm programming language.
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PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page but now it stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.