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Plankalkul
Made by Konrad Zuse. It was created for engineering purposes. -
Math-Matic
It was designed by Remington Rand. It was made for the UNIVAC 1 and UNIVAC 2. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus for scientific and engineering applications. -
Lisp
It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. It was designed by John McCarthy. The name is derived from LISt Processor. -
RPG
RPG was first created in 1959 by IBM. The abbreviation is for Report Program Generator. It was used for the generation of reports from data files, including matching record and sub-total reports. -
COBOL
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. It was made by the US Department of Defense as an effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. The acronym is Common Business Oriented Language. -
Basic
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. It was a high level programming language. The acronym is from Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Daniel G Bobrow, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was used for educational purposes. Its name comes from the Greek word logos meaning word or thought. -
B
It was developed by AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories. It was mainly done by Ken Thompson. It was made for minicomputers and mainframes. -
Pascal
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created to encourage good programming practices. Its name was in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
Created by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Bell Labs. It was an imperative computer programming language. -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner, it was most remembered for being used in the Hindley-Milner type system. It stands for Meta Language -
SQL
Created by Donald D Chamberlin and Raymond F, Boyce. Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. Its acronym was SEQUEL for Structured English Query Language. It was changed later to SQL because it was trademarked. -
ADA
Created by a team lead by Jean Ichbiah. It was used to be the standard language that the Defense Department used. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was created for system programming and embedding. -
Python
Guido van Rossum started creating Python in 1989. The name comes from the show Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was created as a successor to the ABC language capable of exception handling and interfacing with the operating system Amoeba. -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft. Visual basic was one of the first to make it so you only have to drag and drop code then define it. -
PHP
It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was originally made to help build simple web applications but grew into a programming language after a couple of years. The acronym stands for Personal Home Page -
Java
It was created by James Gosling originally for televisions but was to advanced for television at the time. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich. It is one of the 3 core technologies of the world wide web. It supports all major web browsers. -
Delphi
Created by Embarcadero Technologies. It was able to use Rapid Application Development, Application framework, and Visual layout design.