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Developed by Konrad Zuse
Implemented in 1998
Plankalkül is German for "Plan Calculus" or "formal system for planning"
Designed for engineers -
Developed by John Backus & IBM
Acronym for Formula Translating System
For mathematics and scientific/enginnering computing -
Developed by Charles Katz
Language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II -
Developed by John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin
One of the earliest high-level languages
Known for it's connection with Artificial Intelligence -
Developed by IBM
Created for punched card machines
Acronym: Report Program Generator
Still a popular language on IBM machines, but modernized -
Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney
Acronym for "Common Business-Oriented Language"
Usually used for financial purposes -
Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
Acronym for "Beginnger's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
First unstructured, became object-oriented
For use of students in other departments other than science and mathematics -
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
Known for drawing graphics on-screen or with a small robot
Derives from Lisp -
Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (Bell Labs)
Derived from BCPL
For machine-independent applications (High-Level) -
Developed by Niklaus Wirth
Small, but effiecient
Used to teach good programming practices -
Developed by Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)
One of the most widely used languages
Borrowed by most other languages -
Developed by Robin Milner with other collaborators from University of Edinburgh
Acronym for "metalanguage"
Used for calculus -
Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
Acronym: Structured Query Language
Originally designed to work with IBM machines -
Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah
"Ada" is not an acronym, but taken from Augusta Lovelace's name, the person regarded as the first programmer.
Used in saftey-critical and high-security situations such as military craft and medical equipment -
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Enhancement of C -
Developed by Tucker Taft
Improvement of ADA 83
First standardized Object-Oriented language -
Developed by Guido van Rossum and Python Software Foundation
Free and open-source
Made to shorten code -
Developed by Microsoft
Made to be easy to learn and use, but still create complex Windows applications -
Developed by Borland
For Windows 3.1
Name references Oracale at Delphi, a preistess at the temple of Apollo -
Developed by James Gosling, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Corporation
One of the most pompular languages
Class-based and Object-Oriented
"Write Once, Run Anywhere"
Derives from C -
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf and the PHP Group
Server-side, used for web development
Acronym for "Personal Home Page" or "Hypertext Preprocessor" -
Developed by Brendan Eich, Netscape Communications Corporation, and Mozilla Foundation
Mostly used for web browsers
Also used in PDF documents -
Developed by Embarcadero Technologies
Integrated Development Environment for graphical applications
