Computer Programming 1.2 Extra Credit

By Jack Flanagan

  • Plankalkul is Developed

    Plankalkul means "formal system of planning"

  • Fortran is Developed

  • MATH-MATIC is Developed

  • LISP is Developed

    LISP's name is derived from LISt Processor

  • Cobal is Developed

  • RPG is Developed

    RPG stands for Report Program Generator

  • Basic is Developed

    BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • LOGO is Developed

  • B is Developed

    Name possible contraction of BCPL or Bon

  • Pascal is Invented

    Named after Blaise Pascal

  • C is Developed

  • ML is Developed

    Short for Meta-Language

  • SQL is Developed

    Stands for Structured Query Language

  • ADA is Developed

    Named after Ada Lovelance

  • C++ is Developed

    Extension of C

  • Python is Developed

    Name is comes from the British comedy group Monty Python

  • Visual Basic is developed

    Program is derived from BASIC, so that is possibly where the name comes from

  • Delphi is Developed

    Named after Oracle of Delphi

  • Java is Developed

  • Javascript is Developed

  • PHP is Developed

    Used to stand for "Personal Home Page", but now stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor