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Created by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Translates to "Plan Calculus" in english.
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Created by John Backus as a general-purpose language. Stands for FORmula TRANslating system.
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Created by Charles Katz to compile.
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Created by John McCarthy as a general-purpose coding language.
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Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. Was created for business use. Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
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Created by IBM, RPG was a business-oriented coding language. It stands for Report Program Generator.
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Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, BASIC was prized with its ease-of-use. It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert as an educational coding language.
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Created by Ken Thompson, this was an all-around system language.
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Created by Niklaus Wirth to promote good programming practices.
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Created by Dennis Ritchie, and prized for its structured programming format.
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Created by Robin Milner as a general-purpose coding language.
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Created by Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce to process queries. Also known as the Structured Query Language.
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Created by Jean Ichbiah, this language was used to supersede the hundreds of programming languages used by the DoD. It was named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.
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Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, and became the fist constantly-evolving coding language.
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Created by Guido van Rossum as a general-purpose coding language.
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Created by Microsoft, it was prized as an easy-to-learn coding language.
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Created by Borland, this language was used for graphical applications.
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Created by James Gosling as a general-use coding language.
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Created by Brendan Eich for usage on the web.
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Created by Rasmis Lerdorf for web design.