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Plankalkul
It was created by Konrad Zuse for engineering. The name comes from German, meaning "formal system for planning." Plankalkul - Wikipedia -
Fortran
It was created by John Backus as a language speciallized for numeric computation and scientific computing. Its name comes from the non-acronym form of its former title, FORTRAN, or "FORmula TRANslating System." Fortran - Wikipedia -
MATH-MATIC
It was created byCharles Katz as animprovement over Fortran. MATH-MATIC - Wikipedia -
Lisp
It was created by John McCarthy as a mathematical computer. Its name comes from "LISt Processing." Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia -
COBOL
It was created by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) and is used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL stands for "COmmon Business-Oriented Language." COBOL - Wikipedia -
RPG
It was created by IBM as a tool to replicate punched card processing. Its name is an acryonym that stands for "Report Program Generator." IBM RPG - Wikipedia -
BASIC
It was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz as a generic, all-purpose language so that students not studying to become mathematicians and scientists could use computers. Its name is an acronym standing for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." BASIC - Wikipedia -
Logo
It was created byDaniel Bobrow, Waly Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon to teach concepts of programming. Its name comes from the Greek "logos," meaning "word" or "thought." Logo (programming language) - Wikipedia -
B
It was at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and eventually Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for doing processes other than numeric applications, such as system and language software. Its name may be an abbreviation of BCPL, the language it was derived from. B (programming language) - Wikipedia -
Pascal
It was created by Niklaus Wirth as a language to encourage good programming practices. It was named in honor of the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia -
C
It was created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs as a general-purpose programming language. It was named "C" because it was derived from B. C (programming language) - Wikipedia -
ML
It was created by Robin Milner as a general-purpose functinoal programming language. ML stands for "metalanguage." ML (programming language) - Wikipedia -
SQL
It was created by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce as a special programming language for databases. It stands for "Structured Query Language." SQL - Wikipedia -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah for the DoD to cut down on the number of programming languages then in use by the DoD. It is named after Ada Lovelace, the person who is widely credited as being the first computer programmer. Aba (programming language) - Wikipedia -
C++
It was created by by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs because he wanted an efficient language that also had high program organization. It was called "C++" because it as derived from C and "++" is the increment operator in C. C++ - Wikipedia -
Python
It was created by Guido van Rossum as a general-purpose programming language. It was called Python because the creator was a big fan of Monty Python. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)>Python (programming language) - Wikipedia</a> -
Visual Basic
It was created by Microsoft as an event driven programming language and IDE, intended to be easy to use. Visual Basic - Wikipedia -
Delphi
It was created by Anders Heljsberg for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia -
Java
It was created by John Gosling at Sun Microsystems as an object-oriented language. Its name comes from Java Coffee, which the developers drank in large amounts. Java (programming language) - Wikipedia -
Javascript
It was created by Brendan Eich as a web-based programming language. Javascript - Wikipedia -
PHP
It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf as a server-scripting programming language. Originally, it stood for Personal Home Page. PHP - Wikipedia