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FORTRAN Developed
Name derived from Formula Translating System. Developed by John Backus and IBM. Used for calculating Math and in situations where performance is necesary. -
Lisp Developed
Name taken from "List Processing. " Developed by John McCarthy. Used as Math notations for computer programs. -
MATH-MATIC Developed
Developed by Grace Hopper. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN -
COBOL Developed.
Language name comes from COmmon Business Oriented Language. Developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages. It was oriented towards businesses. -
RPG Developed
Developed by IBM as a way to replicate the functions of punchcards. -
Basic Developed
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Was intended to allow non- computer science students to use computers. -
Logo Developed
Developed by Wally Feurzieg and Seymour Papert. LOGO was used to teach concepts releated to LISP. -
B Developed
Date approximate. Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Designed for recursive machine independant software. -
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C Developed
Developed by Bell Labs & Dennis Ritchie. Was designed for low-level programming to allow for cross-platform programs. -
Developed PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth. It is an object-oriented language designed to encourage good programming skills. -
ML Developed
ML Stands for MetaLanguage. It was developed by Robin Milner. It was created to make proofs. -
SQL Developed
SQL, A.k.a. Structured Query Language, was deveoped by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It was originally intended for tuple calculus but has been reformed as a database languge. -
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ADA Development period
Developed by Jean Ichbiah. Designed for many uses. -
C++ Developed
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. Was designed for programming systems but is used in large portions of todays programs. -
Delphi (Object Pascal)
Developed by Apple. It is an Object-Oriented version of Pascal. -
Python Developed
Made by Guido Van Rossum. Python was designed as a high-level language that can be easily read. -
Visual Basic Developed
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft in an attempt to make uupdate basic by giving it new features such as Graphical interfaces and access to databases. -
Java Developed
Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Designed as a "Write once, run anywhere" type system. -
Javascript Developed
Designed by Brendan Eich. Designed to run asyncronously within web browsers. Also used server-side with Node.Js -
PHP Developed
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP was designed for webservers to allow for dynamic pages. PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." -
Plankakul Developed
Plankakul was a concept developed in the 1940s. A compiler was released in 1998. It was developed by Konrad Zuse.