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Plankalkul
Apeared in 1948.
Designed by Konrad Zuse.
Designed for engineering purposes.
Plankalkul does not stand for anything. -
FORTRAN
Apeared in 1957.
Developed by IBM and John Backus.
Designed for high-performance computing. The fastest supercomputers are what Fortran was designed for.
Fortran stands for mathematical FOrmula TRANslating system. -
MATH-MATIC
Apeared in 1957.
Designed by Charles Katz.
Designed for the UNIVAC I and II and was an improved version of the Fortran. -
LISP
Apeared in 1958.
Designed by John McCarthy.
Designed to be a mathematical notation towards computer programs.
Lisp stands for LISt Processing. -
RPG
Apeared in 1959.
Designed by IBM.
Designed as a high-level programming language for business applications.
RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
COBOL
First apeared in 1959.
Developed by Grace Hopper.
Designed for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
BASIC
Originaly designed in 1964.
Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
It was designed to give computer access to non-science students.
BASIC stands for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Intriction Code. -
LOGO
Apeared in 1967.
Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert.
Designed as a functional programming language based on Lisp, just without the Parentheses.
Logo doesn't stand for anything. -
B
It first appeared around 1969.
It was developed Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Its purpose was to strip down BCPL to fit the minicomputers of the time.
It is possible that the letter B is based on Bon, an earlier programming language Thompson had created. -
PASCAL
Apeared in 1970.
Designed by Niklaus Wirth.
Designed to encourage good programming practices.
Pascal does not stand for anything. -
C
First apeared in 1972.
Developed by Dennis Ritchie.
It was designed to encourage cross-platform programming.
C doesn't stand for anything. -
ML
Apeared in 1973.
Designed by Robin Milner and some others from the Unversity of Edinburgh.
Designed to be a functional programming language, but wound up being impure because there were side-effects.
ML stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
Apeared in 1974.
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
Designed to be a special-purpose programming language for managing datain relational database management systems.
SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Development started in 1977.
Jean Ichbiah and his team designed it.
It was designed to supersede the hundreds of computer programming languages used by the DoD (U.S. Department of Defense)
ADA was named after Ada Lovelace, who is credited as being the first computer programer. I couldn't find the exaxct date, just the year. -
C++
First apeared in 1983.
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
Designed to be an intermediate language. It has high-level and low-level programming.
C++ was originaly going to be C With Class but it was changed to C++. -
Python
Apreared in 1991.
Designed by Guido van Rossum.
Designed to be high-level programming and focus on code readability.
Python doesn't stand for anything. -
Visual Basic
Apeared in 1991.
Designed by Microsoft.
Designed to be an easy to use and learn programming language.
Visual Basic does not stand for anything. -
JAVASCRIPT
Apeared in 1994.
Developed by Brendan Eich.
Designed to create dynamic Websites and user interfaces.
JavaScript doesn't stand for anything. -
JAVA
Apeared in 1995.
Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems.
Designed for Write once, run anywhere. Meaning, code does not have to be recompiled to run on one computer, or another.
Java does not stand for anything. -
PHP
Apeared in 1995.
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
Designed for Web Development and Dynamic Web pages.
PHP stands for Personal Home Page. -
Delphi
Released in 1995.
Designed by Borland Software Corporation.
Designed for Visual Programming Tools, Compiled Coding, and Object Orientation.
Delphi doesn't stand for anything.