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Plankalkul
o Year Developed: 1945
o Who Developed it: Konrad Zuse
o Primary Purpose: designed for engineering purposes
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an Acronym -
MATH-MATIC
o Year Developed: 1957
o Who Developed it: Remington Rand
o Primary Purpose: provides algebraic style expressions and floating point arithmetic
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Marketing name for AT-3 or Algebraic translator 3 -
Fortran
o Year Developed: 1957
o Who Developed it: John Backus
o Primary Purpose: general purpose high level programming for numeric and scientific computing
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Formula Translation -
LISP
o Year Developed: 1958
o Who Developed it: John McCarthy
o Primary Purpose: a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, also used for artificial intelligence research
o Does is stand for an Acronym: List Processor -
RPG
o Year Developed: 1959
o Who Developed it: IBM
o Primary Purpose: a tool to replicate punched card processing
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Report Program Generator -
COBOL
o Year Developed: 1959
o Who Developed it: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
o Primary Purpose: designed for business and finance use.
o Does is stand for an Acronym: common business-oriented language -
BASIC
o Year Developed: 1964
o Who Developed it: Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny
o Primary Purpose: A group of high level programming languages, with a design to make it easy to use.
o Does is stand for an Acronym: comes from the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz -
LOGO
o Year Developed: 1967
o Who Developed it: Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
o Primary Purpose: an educational programming language that was mainly used in turtle graphics
o Does is stand for an Acronym: is not an acronym -
B
o Year Developed: 1969
o Who Developed it: Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie
o Primary Purpose: designed for recursive and machine independent applications
o Does is stand for an Acronym: was derived from BCPL -
Pascal
o Year Developed: 1970
o Who Developed it: Niklaus Wirth
o Primary Purpose: made to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring
o Does is stand for an Acronym: named after Blaise Pascal a French mathematician and philosopher -
C
o Year Developed:1972
o Who Developed it: Dennis M. Ritchie
o Primary Purpose: is a general purpose language that supports structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion.
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an acronym -
ML
o Year Developed: 1973
o Who Developed it: Robin Milner
o Primary Purpose: made to develop proof tactics in the LCF Theorem Prover
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Meta Language -
SQL
o Year Developed: 1974
o Who Developed it: ISO/IEC and Donald D. Chamberlin
o Primary Purpose: designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s original quasi relational database management system
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Structured Query Language -
C++
o Year Developed: 1979
o Who Developed it: Bjarne Stroustrup
o Primary Purpose: general purpose programming language with low level memory manipulation and is object.
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Named after the language its based off of C. -
ADA
o Year Developed: 1980
o Who Developed it: Jean Ichbiah and
o Primary Purpose: for the U.S. department of defense for large-scale programming
o Does is stand for an Acronym: was named after Augusta Ada king (Ada Lovelace). -
Visual Basic
o Year Developed: 1991
o Who Developed it: Microsoft
o Primary Purpose: designed to be easy to use and to be an educational language
o Does is stand for an Acronym: not an acronym -
Python
o Year Developed: 1991
o Who Developed it: Guido Van Rossum
o Primary Purpose: a general purpose language that is widely used as an extension language. It also empathizes code read ability
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an Acronym -
PHP
o Year Developed: 1994
o Who Developed it: Rasmus Lerdorf
o Primary Purpose: developed for web design
o Does is stand for an Acronym: originally stood for Personal Home Page but now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor -
JAVASCRIPT
o Year Developed: 1995
o Who Developed it: Brendan Eich
o Primary Purpose: high level client side scripting language
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an acronym -
JAVA
o Year Developed: 1995
o Who Developed it: James Gosling
o Primary Purpose: is a general purpose computer programming language that is class based and object oriented, it is also designed to have minimal implementation dependencies as possible
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an acronym -
Delphi
o Year Developed: 1995
o Who Developed it: Borland (Embarcadero Technologies)
o Primary Purpose: high level language that supports structured and object oriented design
o Does is stand for an Acronym: Not an Acronym