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FORTRAN
designed by John Backus in 1956, originally designed for scientific and engineering applications, stands for FORmula TRANslator. -
Math-Matic
Charles Katz created in 1957. It is an improvement over FORTRAN, Math-Matic stands for mathematical. -
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COBOL
The team that created COBOL consists of: William Selden and Gertrude Tierney of IBM, Howard Bromberg and Howard Discount of RCA, Vernon Reeves and Jean E. Sammet of Sylvania Electric Products. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. Its primary domain is in business. -
BASIC
Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964. Basic stands for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, made to help students access computers. -
LOGO
LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert in 1967 and it is a computer programming language used for learning. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth invented the language in 1970 to help simplify programming from machine code and assembly. Pascal is named after Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and computer pioneer. -
SQL
Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce created in 1970, designed for managing data. Stands for Structured Query Language. -
C
Dennis Ritchie created in 1973, designed for implementing system software. C stands for nothing. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup created in 1979, improvement on C, C++ still stands for nothing -
ADA
designed by John Ichbiah in 1980, a object oriented high level computer programming language, named after Ada Lovelace. -
VISUAL BASIC
Enables rapid application development of graphical user interface applications, made by Microsoft in 1991. -
Java
In 1995 announced at Sun Microsystems Java is born. Platform-independent language aimed at allowing entertainment appliances such as video game consoles and VCRs to communicate. No acronym/means nothing.