Computer Languages

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    Years developed

  • Plankalkul Developed

    Created by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes
  • Lisp developed

    Created by John McCarthy, primary use was for artificial intelligence
  • Fortran created

    Created by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus, easy translation of math formulas into code, stands for FORmula TRANslation
  • MATH-MATIC developed

    Developed by the Rand Corporation, improvement for FORTRAN
  • COBAL created

    Developed by a group of computer professionals called the Conference on Data System Languages, for solution of business problems, stands for ( Common Business Oriented Language)
  • BASIC developed

    Developed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas, designed to allow students to write programs, stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • RPG developed

    Developed by IBM for business reports
  • LOGO created

    Created by a team from MIT, introduce children to programming concepts
  • B Developed

    developed by D.M. Ritchie and K.L Thompson, primarily used for system programming
  • PASCAL created

    Created by Niklaus Wirth, to teach programming techniques and topics to college students
  • C developed

    Developed by Dennis M Ritchie, to be used in writing operation systems for minicimputers,
  • SQL created

    Created by IBM for commercial database system
  • ADA Created

    Developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah, designed for large, long-live applications, chosen in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace.
  • C++ developed

    Developed by Bjorne Stroustrup, provides capabilities for object-oriented programming,
  • ML developed

    Developed by researchers in the LFCF, supports both functional programming and imperative programming
  • Visual Basic developed

    Developed by Microsoft for building applications
  • Python developed

    Developed by Guido Van Rossum, rapid prototyping of complex applications
  • PHP developed

    • PHP-1995, Rasmus Lerdorf, to enhance web pages
  • Delphi created

    Created by Borland to make programming for Windows easy
  • Java created

    Created by Sun Microsystems, powers state-of-the-art programs such as utilities, games, and business applications
  • Javascript developed

    Developed by Brendan Eichused to make web pages interactive