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Created by Konrad Zuse. Was designed for engineering purposes. Name translates from German to mean "Plan Calculus".
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Created by John Backus. Was made to make large scale numerical calculations in science and engineering. Gets it's name from "Formula Translation".
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Was created by Remington Rand. Created to be a compiler. Gets its name from Math.
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Was developed by Steve Russell. It has a large language standard including many built-in data types, functions, macros and other language elements, and an object system. It's name derives from "LISt Processor".
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It was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. The name COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language.
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Was developed by IBM. It's used as a tool to replicate punched card processing. It's name stands for "Report Program Generator".
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Was created by John G. Kemeny & Thomas E. Kurtz. It is a general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Created by BBN Technologies. Mainly used for young school children as a basic method of programming instructions into a computer to create a graphic. Derives from the Greek word logos, meaning word or thought.
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Was created by ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications. It gets its name from an earlier programming language called Bon.
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Was created by Niklaus Wirth. Was made for loop controls. Name comes from Blaise Pascal.
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Was created by Raymond F. Boyce. Used to communicate with and manipulate databases. It's name stands for "Structured Query Language".
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Was created by Dennis Ritchie. Is ideal for developing firmware or portable applications. It is called C because it came after B programming language.
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Created by Robin Milner. A general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference. Name means "Meta Language".
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Was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is a sophisticated, efficient, and a general-purpose programming language based on C. C++ translates to "increment C by 1".
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Was created by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft. It was made to improve code safety and maintainability. It gets it's name from Ada Lovelace.
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Was created by Guido van Rossum. Used for developing both desktop and web applications. Rossum chose python as the name because he wanted something that was short, unique, and mysterious.
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Was created by Microsoft. Used to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces.
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Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Made for web development. Name means "Hypertext preprocessor".
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Was created by Anders Hejlsberg. It was made to provide rapidity and good quality. The name comes from the myth of Pythia, also known as the Oracle of Delphi.
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Developed by Sun Microsystems. The language was created to be concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. Gets its name from Java coffee.
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Was developed by Netscrape Communications Corporation.
It is commonly used as a client side scripting language. It gets its name as a result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun.