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Developed by Konrad Zuse Computor programming designed for engineering purposes. Plankkalkul stands for "plan calculus"
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Developed by John W. Backusat at IBM. General purpsoe, imperative programming language suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Name references formula Translating system.
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Developed by Charles Katz. Early programming language for UNIVAC I amd UNIVAC ll intended as improvement over Fortran.
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Developed by John McCarthy. Programming language with long history and distinctive, fully parenthesized polish prefix notation. Lisp stands for: Locate Identifier Separation Protocol
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Developed by the CODASYL comitee. Developed as compiled English-like computor programming language designed for bussiness use. COBOL stands for: Common Bussiness Oriented Language.
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Developed by IBM. Highleved programming language for bussiness applications - tool to replicate punch card processing. RPG stands for "Structured Query Language"
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Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College. Designed to be general purpose, high level programing languages emphasizing ease of use. Basic is a acronym for: Beginers All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Developed by Seymour Papert. Educational programming language use of "Turtle Graphics" Named derived from Greek word "Logos" meaning word of thought.
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Developed by Ken Thompson with contributions from Dennis Ritchie. Purpose was recursive, non numeric, machine independant aplications, such as system and language software. Named "B" because derived from BCPL.
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Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Small and efficent language intended to encourage good programming practices. Named for French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
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Developed by Dennis Ritchie. One of the most widely used programming languages of all time. C maps efficently to typical machine instructions.
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Developed by Robin Milner University of Edinburgh. Develops proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. ML stands for Metalanguage.
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Developed by ISO/IEC Special purpose programming language designed for managing data. SQL stands for " Structural Query Language"
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Developed by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to USDOD. Purpose was to superseed previous programing languages used by DOD. ADA named after Ada Loveloce (first computor prgramer)
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Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed with biased towards system programming and large systems with efficency and flexibility.
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Developed by Guido Van Rossum. General purpose, high level programming language. Its design emphasizes code readability with fewer lines of code. Name derived from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Developed by microsft (Alan Cooper) Third generation event driven programming language and integrated development environment. VB was intended to be easy to learn and use.
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Developed by Anders Hejilsberg at Broland. Developed as a rapid application tool for windows. Name references the oracle of Delphi.
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Developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. General purpose is prorgraming language that is onject oriented and designed to have as few implementation dependencies. Named for Java Coffee.
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Developed by Brenden Eich at Netscape. One of the three essential technologies of the world wide web content production.
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Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed for web development but also general purpose programming language. PHP stands for "personal home page"