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MATH-MATIC
Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957. It was intended as an improvwement over FORTRAN -
FORTRAN
Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM. it is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing -
COBOL
One of the oldest programming languages. Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, Primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. -
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BASIC
Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. The original BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students -
LOGO
Logo was created in 1967 for educational use by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. The name has greek origins, the name logo means "word", emphasising the contrast between itself and other existing programming languages that processed numbers. -
Pascal
Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal was intended to teach students programming. -
C
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing portable application software.
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SQL
SQL (Often referred to as Structured Query Language) is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems . It was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, and was developed by IBM -
ADA
Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense. Used in mission-critical applications, such as avionics software -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language. C++ is one of the most popular programming languages, used widley by the Windows OS -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development of GUI applications. access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. It was developed by Microsoft -
Java
Java was delevoped by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time so Gosling aimed to implement a virtual machine and a language that had a familiar C/C++ style of notation. Java is now widely used.