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Designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level language designed for a computer. 'Plankalkul' is german for "Plan Calculus"
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Designed by John Backus. Suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. 'FORTRAN' is short for Formula Translation.
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Designed by Howard Bromberg for business use. 'COBOL' stands for Common business-oriented language
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Designed by IBM mainly for business applications. 'RPG' stands for "Report Program Generator".
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Designed by Donald D Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce. Used for handling structured data where there are relations between different entities/variable of the data. 'SQL' stand for "Structure Query Language".
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BASIC was designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was made to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Designed by Wally Feurzeig. Widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot. 'LOGO' is from the Greek word logos meaning "thought".
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D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson designed 'B'. Its main purpose is for non-numeric applications such as system programming. The name 'B' was derived from BCPL
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Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Object-oriented programming used by apple computers.
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Dennis Ritchie designed 'C'. He designed it to be compiled using a creatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level memory manipulation.
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Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
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Designed by Jean Ichbiah. ADA is embedded and has real-time systems. Is named after Ada Lovelace.
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Designed by John McCarthy. Originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, most favored for "AI".
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Designed by Wolfram Research. Its main purpose was for elementary functions and specal functions.
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Designed by Robin Miner. It provides pattern matching for function arguments. 'ML' stands for "Meta Language".
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Designed by Guido van Rossum. Python emphasizes code readablty, notable using significant whitespace.
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Designed by Microsoft. Made to be relatively easy to learn and use.
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Designed by Embarcadero Technologies. An Even-driven language
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Designed by James Gosling. It was specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. Intended to "Write once, run anywhere".
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Designed by Brendan Eich. Enables interactive web pages and thus is an essential part of web applications
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Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was designed for web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks. 'PHP' is representing "Hypertext Preprocessor".