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Plankalkul
Programming language designed for engineering purposes. Written by Konrad Zuse. "Kalkül" means formal system – the Hilbert-style deduction system is for example originally called "Hilbert-Kalkül", so Plankalkül means "formal system for planning". -
Fortran
It is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Written by John Backus. Was previously spelled differently but no signifcance behind the meaning. -
LOGO
An educational programming language, written by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon..derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" by Feurzeig, to distinguish itself from other programming languages that were primarily numbers, not graphics or logic, oriented. -
MATH-MATIC
Written by Charlez Katz. Early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Marketing name for the AT-3 compiler but no significance behind the name. -
Lisp
A family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. Written by John McCarthy -
RPG
A high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. Developed by IBM. -
COBOL
Sands for Common Business Oriented Language. Primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. -
BASIC
Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, and was made to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. -
B
designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software. The name B stems for BCPL -
Pascal
Historically influential imperative and procedural programming language. It was originally designed as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. Written by Niklaus Wirth. -
C
"Ageneral-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. " Written by Dennis Ritchie. -
ML
A general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference. Written by Robin Milner. Stands for metalanguage -
SQL
It is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). Written by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. iIitially called SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language but had to change due to a copyright claim. -
ADA
design-by-contract, extremely strong typing, explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism. Named after Ada Lovelace who was believed to be the first programmer. Made by Jean Ichbiah. -
C++
General Purose programming. Written by Bjarne Stroustrup. Started out as "C with classes" and was later changed C++ with the addition signs being the increment operator in C. -
Python
it is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java. Written by Guido van Rossum. -
Visual Basic
A legacy third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991. Written by developers at Microsoft. -
Javascript
It is a high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language. By Brendan Eich. It was originally named Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript. -
Delphi
An integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. Written by Borland. Named in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. -
PHP
Recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocesso. General-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Written
