Computer Programming History - Hunter

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  • Plankalkul

    Designed/Developed by Konrad Zuse, Made for engineering purposes

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus, ( also designed ) and the company International Business Machines Corporation. Made for scientific computing/calculations.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Remington Rand, written by a team lead by Charles Katz. Used for mathematical expressions/problem in the military.

  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy and developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P Hart, and Mike Levin. Made for list processing, and soon enough artificial intelligence.

  • RPG / Report Program Generator

    Designed/developed by International Business Machines Corporation. Made for business applications.

  • COBOL

    Designed/Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. Mainly used in business and systems of companies and governments.

  • LOGO

    Both designed and developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Meant to be designed for educational intros to programming for children.

  • B

    Designed/Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Made for non-numeric needs, such as system programming and linguistic functions.

  • PASCAL

    Designed/developed by Niklaus Wirth.Is used for formal specification and teaching of math-centric algorithms.

  • C

    designed by Dennis Ritchie and developed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs / Commonly used for system programming and general-purpose things.

  • ML / Meta Language

    Designed/developed by Robert Milner with help from the University of Edinburgh. Meant for general-purpose programming.

  • SQL / Structured Query Language

    Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce; developed by International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission. Used for managing data in management systems.

  • ADA

    Designed and developed byJean Ichbiah. Mainly used in safety-critical systems an used by the Department Of Defense for various needs.

  • C++

    Designed and developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Made for all-around, and mostly general-purpose computer programs.

  • Delphi

    Designed and developed by Niklaus Wirth, and Anders Hejlsberg .
    Used for development of Windows, console, and web and mobile programs/software.

  • Phyton

    Designed by Guido Van Rossum and developed by the Phyton Software Foundation. Made for general-purpose programming.

  • Visual Basic

    Designed and developed by Microsoft. Made for database software, games, and a variety of other forms of software.

  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling and currently developed by Sun Microsystems. Made for general-purpose usage, ranging from servers to games, and software for other devices.

  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich and is currently developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, and Ecma International. Used for interactive web pages, also goes in hand with HTML and CSS.

  • PHP / Hypertext Preprocessor

    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and developed by Zend Technologies. Used for server-side scripting/web-development or for general-purpose things. / PHP = Hypertext Preprocessor