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Plankalkül Programming Language
"Plankalkül is a German programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945." - Wikipedia Article
Plankalkül was a high-level programming language meant for various arithmetic equations. It was developed by Konrad Zuse. -
Fortran Programming Language
"Fortran (previously FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing." - Wikipedia
Article Fortran was designed mainly for heavy processing like weather predictions, fluid dynamics, physics, and chemistry. It was designed by John Backus and developed by John Backus and IBM. -
MATH-MATIC Programming Language
"MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957." - Wikipedia Article It was developed by Charles Katz. -
Lisp Programing Language
"Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation." - Wikipedia Article
Lisp was primarially used as a language for mathematics and heavy calculations. It was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. -
RPG Programming Language
"RPG is a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications." - Wikipedia Article
It was used to replicate punched-card processing used by the IBM OS. It was developed by IBM -
COBOL Programming Language
"COBOL, an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use." - Wikipedia Article
COBOL was primarially used for transation processing applications, but soon died out as other languages or software packages replaced COBOL. The last existing programs are there to only update themselves. It was developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney -
BASIC Programming Language
BASIC stands for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and is used for many various tasks, as the language itself is very easy to use. BASIC was such a versitile language, it influenced multiple languages based off of it including but not limited to: Microsoft Visual Basic, AutoHotKey, .NET, COMAL. It was developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. -
LOGO Programming Language
"Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon." - Wikipedia Article
LOGO was used for teaching students about "turtle graphics", basically lines on a screen that create images from movement and drawing. -
B Programming Language
B Programming Language was developed in 1969 as a language to handle non-numeric applications and system/language software. "B is a computer language designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson, for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming." - Bell Labs -
Pascal Programing Language
"Pascal is a historically influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring."- Wikipedia Article -
C Programming Language
"C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations." - Wikipedia Article
C Programming was developed by Dennis Ritchie mainly used as an intermediate programming language for operating systems and super-computers. -
PHP Programming Language
"PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language." - Wikipedia Article
It was meant for web development and use as a simple programming language. It was developed by The PHP Group. -
ML Programming Language
"ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh, whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM." - Wikipedia Article -
SQL Programming Language
"SQL (Structured Query Language) is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS)." - Wikipedia Article
It was meant for mostly data control and management. It was developed by ISO/IEC. -
ADA Programming Language
The Ada Programming Language was developed in the 1980's for the Department of Defense as a programming language to be used by the DoD as their main language. "Ada is a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications – and embedded systems in particular – where reliability and efficiency are essential." - Ada Programming Website
It was developed by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. -
C++ Programming Language
"C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation." - Wikipedia Article
C++ was developed for mainly system programming with desktop applications and servers. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Python Programming Language
"Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java." - Wikipedia Article
It was meant for creating large scale programs with half the code required if you were to program in C++ or Java. It was developed by Python Software Foundation. -
Visual Basic Programming Language
"Visual Basic is a legacy third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991." It was meant as an application creation tool as well as a webpage creation tool. It was developed by Microsoft. -
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Delphi Programming Language
"Embarcadero Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications." - Wikipedia Article
Delphi was developed as a development tool for Windows and eventually "paired" with a C++ package and multiple other languages. It was developed by Borland between 1995-2008 but taken over by Embarcadero Technologies from 2009 to present day. -
Java Programming Language
"Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible." - Wikipedia Article
It was designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems -
JavaScript Programming Language
"JavaScript (/ˈdʒɑːvəˌskrɪpt/[5]) is a high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language." JavaScript was meant to be used for production of the World Wide Web, along with CSS and HTML. It was designed by Brenden Eich and developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, and Ecma International.
First Appeared in May, 1995! (Unknown Day) -
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