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FORTRAN was designed by John Backaus by 1957.
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MATH-MATIC was designed in 1957 by Charles Katz. It is known as marketing name for AT-3 compiler.
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COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet in 1959. An acronym for COBOL is COmmon Business-Oriented Language
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BASIC was designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz in 1964. An acronym for BASIC is Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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LOGO was designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert. It is used as educational purpose.
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PASCAL was developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth and its primary purpose was to teach students structured programming.
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C was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1973. Its primary purpose is for implementing system software
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SQL is designed by IBM in 1974. It is used as a database computer language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). Acronym for SQl is structured Query Language.
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C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979. Its primary purpose is to used as hardware design
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Java was developed in 1995 by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Its primary purpose or orginally designed for interactive televisions.