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  Konrad Zuse.Designed for engineering purposes.
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  Developed by the Conference on Data System Languages. Used for business and finances. Common Business Oriented Language.
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  Developed by Remington Rand. Made for mathematical equations on the UNIVAC I and II.
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  Developed by John Backus and IBM. Originally for scientific and engineering applications. Derived from Formula Translation.
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  IBM. Used as a higher level program for businesses. Report Program Generator.
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  Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Wanted to enable students in other fields than science and math to be able to use computers. Beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code.
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  Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Used for turtle graphics.
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  Developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. For machine independent applications like system and language software. Derived from BPCL or might be based on BON.
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  Niklaus wirth. Designed to encourage good programing practices.
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  Bell Laboratories by Dennis Ritchie. For higher level of machinery but still gave the programmer the ability to control individual bits of information.
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  Robin Milner and others at University of Edinburgh. Was used for a general purpose.Metalanguage.
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  Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.Was used to communicate with the database.Structured Query Language.
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  developed by Jean Ichbiah. For long lived applications and embedded systems. Named after Augusta Ada.
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  Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in the Bell Laboratory. The purpose was to make writing programs easier and more pleasant for the programmer.
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  Guido Van Rossum. Was to be simpler and the programmer doesn't have to use as many lines of text.
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  Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed for web development.
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  Developed by Embarcadero Technologies. For desktop, mobile, web, and console.
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  Developed by James Gosling. So all programs could run off of java without the need of recompilation.
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  Developed by Brendan Eich. Able to control the web pages on the client side, server-side programs, and mobile applications.
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  Microsoft. Faster and easier way to create programs in windows.
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  Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Mathematical notation.