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1945,
Konrad Zuse,
Designed for engineering purposes,
No acronym -
1958,
John McCarthy,
Created to develop a list processing language for Artificial Intelligence,
No acronym1958 -
1957,
John Backus and IBM,
designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code,
FORmula TRANslation -
1957,
Charles Katz, Grace Hopper, and a team assisting them,
designed for the UNIVAC I and the UNIVAC II,
No acronym -
1959,
CODASYL (“Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages”),
Designed for business use,
COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
1959,
IBM company,
made for business applications,
Report Program Generator -
1964,
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz,
made to let students use a computer even if they weren’t scientists or mathematicians,
BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
1967,
Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon,
Designed to teach children (or adults) computer programming, math, language skills, etc.,
The Greek logos means “word” or “thought” -
1968,
Niklaus Wirth,
Created to teach structured programming and data structuring,
PASCAL was named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal -
1969,
D.M. Ritchie and K.L. Thompson,
made for recursive, non-numeric machine independent applications,
B could be derived from either Bon, or BCPL -
1972,
Dennis Ritchie,
used to re-implement the Unix operating system,
No acronym -
1973,
Robin Milner with the University of Edinburgh,
General-purpose language,
No acronym -
1974,
Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce,
Made to manage data held in a relational database management system,
Structured Query Language -
1977,
Team lead by Jean Ichbiah,
made for the development of very large software systems,
named in honor of Ada Lovelace -
1983,
Bjarne Stroustrup,
General-purpose language,
No acronym -
1987,
Alan Cooper with Microsoft,
Made to compete with C, C++, PASCAL< etc. and be one of the easiest languages to use,
No acronym -
1991,
Guido Van Rossum,
Python was made to be an improved version of ABC,
Python got its name from one of its creator’s favorite shows, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” -
1994,
Rasmus Lerdorf,
Made to build dynamic web pages,
Originally an acronym for Personal Home Page -
1995,
made by Borland,
designed to make programming for windows easy,
No acronym -
1995,
made by James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems,
designed to execute code from remote sources securely,
No acronym -
1995,
Brendan Eich with a Netscape team,
Designed to extend web page functionality,
Java was popular at the time, so they made JavaScript's name similar