Computer Languages

By Matt_in_the_Hatt

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was a German computer language invented in 1943 by Konrad Zuse. The creator of the language primarily intended the language to solve math problems, but also wanted to prove that computers could be more than calculators, so he used it to solve non mathematical problems and even used it in chess.

  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN is a general purpose computer language. It's most common use however is for numeric and scientific computing

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the computer language for the UNIVAC and UNIVAC II. It was developed in by a team led by Charles Kratz under supervision from Grace Hopper.

  • COBOL

    COBOL is a language that is widely used for businesses and financial transactions. COBOL stands for "Common Business Oriented Language" and was originally made in 1959 for the US Department of Defense as an effort to make a computer language for the processing of data. While the language is over 50 years old, around 200 times more COBOL transactions have happened than Google searches

  • RPG

    IBM invented RPG in 1959 for punched credit card machines. RPG is short for "Report Program Generator". Modern versions of RPG are only available on IBM i- or OS/400 based systems.

  • LISP

    LISP (List Processing) is a computer language made in 1960. It was made for easy manipulation of data strings. LISP has since evolved into a common language used to develop Artificial Intelligence.

  • BASIC

    BASIC was first developed in 1964. BASIC was intended to be a computer language for novices, and it was supposed to be easily understood so its commands were made similar to English. BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"

  • LOGO

    LOGO was an educational computer language based off of LISP. It was used to develop simulations, games and multimedia presentations.

  • B

    This programming language was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. This language was inspired by BPCL and it inspired C

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL was developed in 1970 and was based off of the computer language ALGOL. PASCAL was a superior language at the time of its release because of its ability to define data types. Pascal reached its peak of popularity around 1980.

  • SQL

    SQL, short for: "Structured Query Language" is a domain-specific computer programming language meant to handle information stored in relational databases. SQL was made by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.

  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. It's a general purpose computer language, named C because it superseded the language B.(which it was based off of)

  • ML

    ML is a general purpose computer language that is very popular among compilers. ML stands for "Meta Language" and has been jokingly called "Lisp with Types".

  • ADA

    ADA was a computer language that was first developed in 1977. It is named after Ada Lovelace who is often credited for being the first computer programmer.

  • C++

    C++ was developed in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ was meant to be a more advanced version of C, with object-oriented added to the language from Simula 67.

  • Python

    Python is a general use high level computer language that was created in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. Python is very focused on ease of comprehension, so the program language is built in with a lot of white space.

  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft released Visual Basic in 1991. VB is a programming language meant to develop software and code in an easily understandable, visual environment.

  • PHP

    PHP, which is an acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor, is a general use programming language that is specialized towards web development. PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf.

  • Delphi

    Delphi is basically the computer language "Turbo Pascal" turned into an "object-oriented application development" language.

  • Java

    Java was created to be a programming language with C/C++ like syntax, but something that was far more uniform and simplistic. Java was made to run across multiple platforms, hence the promise/slogan: "Write once, run anywhere"

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was created in 1995 and it was meant to be the companion language to Java. However JavaScript eventually evolved from the original sidekick it was meant to be into a very popular programming language for the internet.