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Computer Languages

By LTkdog

  • Plankalkül

    Developed by Konrad Zuse
    Implemented in 1998
    Plankalkül is German for "Plan Calculus" or "formal system for planning"
    Designed for engineers

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus & IBM
    Acronym for Formula Translating System
    For mathematics and scientific/enginnering computing

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz
    Language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II

  • Lisp

    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

  • RPG

    RPG
    Developed by IBM
    Created for punched card machines
    Acronym: Report Program Generator
    Still a popular language on IBM machines, but modernized

  • COBOL

    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

  • BASIC

    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

  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
    Known for drawing graphics on-screen or with a small robot
    Derives from Lisp

  • B

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (Bell Labs)
    Derived from BCPL
    For machine-independent applications (High-Level)

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth
    Small, but effiecient
    Used to teach good programming practices

  • C

    C
    Developed by Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)
    One of the most widely used languages
    Borrowed by most other languages

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner with other collaborators from University of Edinburgh
    Acronym for "metalanguage"
    Used for calculus

  • SQL

    Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
    Acronym: Structured Query Language
    Originally designed to work with IBM machines

  • ADA 83

    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

  • C++

    C++
    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
    Enhancement of C

  • ADA 95

    Developed by Tucker Taft
    Improvement of ADA 83
    First standardized Object-Oriented language

  • Python

    Python
    Developed by Guido van Rossum and Python Software Foundation
    Free and open-source
    Made to shorten code

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Developed by Microsoft
    Made to be easy to learn and use, but still create complex Windows applications

  • Borland Delphi

    Developed by Borland
    For Windows 3.1
    Name references Oracale at Delphi, a preistess at the temple of Apollo

  • Java

    Java
    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

  • PHP

    PHP
    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf and the PHP Group
    Server-side, used for web development
    Acronym for "Personal Home Page" or "Hypertext Preprocessor"

  • JavaScript

    Developed by Brendan Eich, Netscape Communications Corporation, and Mozilla Foundation
    Mostly used for web browsers
    Also used in PDF documents

  • Embarcadero Delphi

    Embarcadero Delphi
    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies
    Integrated Development Environment for graphical applications