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Fortran
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COBOL
Tear Created: 1959
People who Created it: Conference on Data Systems Languages
(CODASYL)
Purpose of the Language: For developing business
Acronym: Common Business Oriented Language
(https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/graduate/631/Fall2002/COBOL.pdf) -
BASIC
Year Created: 1664
People who Created it: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose of the Language: Executed for the G.E.225
Acronym: Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
(https://iiteeeestudents.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/history-of-basic-programming-language/) -
B
Year Created: 1969
People who created it: designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson
Purpose of the Language: For system programming
Acronym: none
(https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bintro.html) -
C
Year Created: 1974
People who Created it: Dennis M. Ritchie
Purpose of the Language: To develop the UNIX operating system
Acronym: None
(https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_overview.htm) -
ADA
Year Created: Early 1980's
People who Created it: A team Led By Jean Ichbiah
Purpose of the Language: For "large applications – and embedded systems"- (www2.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada)
Acronym: Does not stand for anything, but it "honors Augusta Ada Lovelace"- (www2.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada) -
Delphi
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Java
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Javascript
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C++
Year Created: 1998
People who Created it: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose of the Language: In embedded systems software engineering
Acronym: C with Classes
(https://www.softwareengineerinsider.com/programming-languages/cplusplus.html)
