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Plankalkul
Plankalkul or planned calculus was designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering. -
Fortran
Fortran is one of the oldest coding languagaes, created John Backus of IBM. Fortram stands for Formula Translations because it was created to turn math formulas into code. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand, MATH-MATIC is a marketing name for AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3). It was similar to UNIVAC but had different arithmetic functions. -
Lisp
Lisp was designed by John McCarthy originally, as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. The name Lisp comes from the game List Processor. -
RPG
RPG was created by IBM, RPG stands for Report Program Generator. RPG is a high level language made for business applications. -
COBOL
COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL was designed by programmer Grace Hopper. COBOL was designed for business use, but today many use different languages. -
BASIC
Basic is an acronym for Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language and tried to make it easy for anyone to use. -
Logo
Logo was created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Logo is known for the use of turtle graphics. -
B
B was designed by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie. B is similar to BCPL. It was designed for recursive, non numeric machine independent applications. -
PASCAL
Pascal was created by Niklaus Wirth. It is a procedural programming language and encourages good programming practices. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories. C is a flexible language with fast execution with few restraints for the programmer. -
ML
ML stands for Meta Language. It is a general purpose functional programming language designed by Robert Milner. -
SQL
SQL or Structured Query Language, is designed to manage data in a relational data base. It was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce -
Ada
Ada was developed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah. The language is designed for large long lived applications where reliability and efficiency are essential. -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Straustrup. It was designed to be used on resource constrained as well as large systems with key points being efficiency and flexibility. -
Python
Python was desgined by Guido van Rossum and focuses on making code easier to read. It is used for general purpose programming. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was created to be easy to use and learn by Microsoft. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich. It is used to make webpages interactive and provide online programs. -
PHP
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. It was created by Ramus Leardof and the rest of the PHP team. It was designed primary for web development. -
Delphi (Object Pascal)
Delphi was originally created by Borland to be the rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Java
Java was created by James Gosling. Java is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible as a general purpose language.