Computer Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was originally designed for engineering and was created by Konrad Zuse.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz was the leader of the group that created MATH-MATIC and this was an improved version of Fortran.
  • Fortran

    Introduced by a team made by IBM. The members of the team were:Richard Goldberg, Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Herrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Robert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Lois Haibt, and David Sayre.
  • Lisp

    It was created originally for mathematical notation on computers. The langauge was created by John McCarthy.
  • RPG

    This was created by IBM. The main purpose for the RPG was business applications.
  • COBOL

    This language was desgined by Grace Hopper. This was desgined to be used primarily in the business industry.
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, This language was made so that non science students could have access to computers.
  • Logo

    This was originally used in education and constructive teaching. The creator of Logo is Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • B

    B was develeoped by Ken Thompson. This language was used in embedded systems.
  • PASCAL

    Pascal was designed by Niklaus Wirth. The main purpose of Pascal was to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    it was developed by Dennis Ritchie. The main reason for creating C was to create a system software.
  • ML

    This was a general purpose functional programming language, it was created by Robin Milner
  • SQL

    SQL (Structured Query Langauge) this was created for managing data in relational database management systems. It is a special purpose programming language. It was created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
  • ADA

    Used for strong typing, run-time checking, and message passing and was created by Jean Ichbiah
  • C++

    it was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was created mainly for making operating system platforms.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was designed so it was easy to learn and to use. This programming language was created by Microsoft.
  • Python

    it was created to make a new language that was easy to read. the syntax of python is original and easily read. It was created by Guido van Rossum.
  • Embarcadero Delphi

    Embarcadero Delphi's main architect was Anders Hejlsberg. This was made mainly for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript is an open scource origramming language which was used in browsers to provide enhanced user interface and dynamic websites. This programming language was created by: Brendan Eich while he was working for Netscape.
  • PHP

    PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. The language was created to design dynamic web pages.
  • Java

    It was made in a way that it could be used on any machine without recompiling it, its early uses were in television and mini computers. The creators of this langauge are: James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton.