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Plankalkul
Plankalkul is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. Plankalkul means "formal system for planning". -
Fortran
Fortran was developed by John Backusa and IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, The name is derived from Formula Translating System. Fortran is a general-purpose language best suited for scientific computing and numeric computation. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957. The name was the the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. MATH-MATIC is suited to numeric computation and scientific computing, and Intended to be an improvement over FORTRAN. -
Lisp
Lisp was invented by John McCarthy in 1958 while he was at MIT. Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. It was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. The name LISP comes from "LISt Processor" -
COBOL
COBOL was created by a team of Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. COBOL stands for common business-oriented language, and is an English-like language designed for business use. -
RPG
RPG is a high-level programming language that is used in business applications. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. RPG is one of the few languages created for punched card machines that are still in common use today. This is because the language has evolved considerably over time. It was originally developed by IBM in 1959. -
BASIC
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz in 1964. BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. -
LOGO
LOGO is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. "Logo" is not an acronym. It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought". -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson in 1969. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software. The name comes from contraction of BCPL. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth. in 1970. PASCAL was made as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
C was designed by Dennis Ritchie in the early 70's at AT&T Bell Labs. It was designed to be compiled using a straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support. The name of C simply continued the alphabetic order started by B. -
ML
ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed in the early 70s by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. ML's strengths are mostly in language design and manipulation. -
SQL
SQL is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system. SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 70s. SQL was initially called SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language), but later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley aircraft company. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah, ADA is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. ADA is named after Ada Lovelace, who was the first computer programmer. -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983 and is named after C, and according to Stroustrup: "the name signifies the evolutionary nature of the changes from C". -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is a programming language designed by Microsoft engineered for productively building type-safe and object-oriented applications. Visual Basic enables developers to target Windows, Web, and mobile devices. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. The name Visual Basic is from the the language Basic, and the the drag and drop design of Visual Basic -
Python
Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Python's name comes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java. -
Java
Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation). Java is a general-purpose language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let developers "write once, run anywhere". Java was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office. Later the project went by the name Green and was finally renamed Java, from Java coffee. -
Delphi
Delphi was created by Embarcadero Technologies and first released in 1995. Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested the Delphi codename in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. -
PHP
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development, but also as a general use language. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich in 10 days while working for Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted language. JavaScript was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript when it was deployed in the Netscape browser.
