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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse, designed for engineering purposes. It's name means Plan Calculus. -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus, used for numeric computation and scientific computing. The name is derived from formula translation. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by Remington Rand. It was developed for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. It's name was a marketing name for the Algebraic Translator 3. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy, used for mathematical notation and computer programs. -
COBOL
Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. It is used in business, finance, and administrative systems. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM, used for business applications. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was designed to help students who were not in STEM programs to be able to use computers. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, used for turtle graphics -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson, designed for system language software -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It is an imperative procedural language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It was used in embedding hardware programming. -
ML
Developed by Robin Miller, it is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language. It's name stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It is used for managing date. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
ADA was developed by Jean Ichbiah. It was used for things like aircraft navigation. ADA was named after Ada Byron. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is a general all purpose language, often used for CGI script. -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum, used for general-purpose programming. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, used for graphical user interface. -
Java
Java was developed by by James Gosling and it is used for web applications. -
Javascript
Javascript first appeared in 1995, but the stable release was in 2016. It is used in modern web browsers. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for web development. PHP stands for Personal Home Page. -
Delphi
Delphi's stable release was April 20, 2016. It was developed by Borland. Delphi is a programming language for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.