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Plankalkül
1) Konrad Zuse
2) Designed for engineering purposes
3) None -
Fortran
1) IBM
2) General-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing
3) None -
MATH-MATIC
1) Group lead by Charles Katz
2) Led to the development of the first English-language business data processing compiler
3) None -
Lisp
1) John McCarthy
2) Used as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
3) List programming -
COBOL
1) Grace Hopper
2) Made for Business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
3) COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
1) IBM
2) Buisness applications
3) Report Program Generator -
BASIC
1) John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
2) They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
3) None -
LOGO
1) Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
2) To enable what Papert called "body-syntonic reasoning"
3) Comes from the greek word "logos" -
B
1) Bell Labs
2) Made in oder to fit smaller memory capacity
3) It is possible that its name may be based on Bon, an earlier and unrelated language -
Pascal
1) Niklaus Wirth
2) A small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices.
3) Named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal -
C
1) Dennis Ritchie
2) To provide low-level access to memory
3) None -
ML
1) Robin Milner
2) It was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
3) Meta language -
SQL
1) Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
2) Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system
3) Structured Query Language -
ADA
1) Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull
2) For the DOD
3) Ada was named after Ada Lovelace -
C++
1) Bjarne Stroustrup
2) Entertainment software such as video games
3) None -
Delphi
1) Borderland
2) Made for an integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
3) Nond -
Python
1) Guido van Rossum
2) The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale
3) None -
Visual Basic
1) Microsoft
2) Made to be a basic and easy to learn language
3) None -
Java
1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
2) They wanted to make a "write once, run anywhere" language
3) None -
Javascript
1) Brendan Eich
2) So that client-side scripts could interact with the user
3) None -
PHP
1) Rasmus Lerdorf
2) Designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language
3) Originally stood for Personal Home Page, now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor