Computer Language history

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  • Plankalkul

    Created by Konrad Zuse as an early programing language focusing on engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System made by John Backus for scientific and engineering application.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by Charles Katz in an attempt to improve FORTRAN specifically for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
  • Lisp

    Made by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computers.
  • COBOL

    COmmon Business-Oriented Language designed by Grace Hopper as an early programing launguage for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM for Buisness applications.
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It's main purpose was an easy to use laungauge to appeal to many people.
  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, the original goal was to create a math land where kids could explore and manipulate words and sentences. Most notably was the use of virtual and robotic turtles
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson based on the BCPL laungauge but consolidated for memory purposes.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language in attempts to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie from B to take advantage of PDP-11's features specifically byte addressability.
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner metalanguage to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover witch is a teorem prover itself.
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language desighned by Donald D. Chamberlin
    and Raymond F. Boyce. Designed specifically for managing data held in a relational database management system which is a database management system that is based on the relational model.
  • ADA

    ADA
    Created by CII Honeywell Bull, led by Jean Ichbiah, developed for the US Department of Defense in an attempt to reduce the number of programing laungages and create a more usable number.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup based on C because of it's speed and general purpose by integrated simula because of it's large software development potential.
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum focusing on readability and efficiency in typing code.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft, based off Basic, it is an event driven launguage inteded to be easy to learn and use.
  • Delphi

    Made by Borland to program Windows quickly and easily, but staying advanced.
  • Java

    Java
    Made by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems as a language to allow everyone to write once, read anywhere.
  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich to allow interact with users and high client-server useability.
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf designed for web development and general usage. PHP originally stood for personal home page.