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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse. First high level language to be designed for a computer. Designed for enginnering purposes. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus. Very general use but was strong in numeric computation and scientific computing. -
Math-Matic
Created by Charles Katz. Developed as a improvement over fourtran, -
LISP
Written by John McCarthy. Very high-level mathematical notation for computer programs. Later became favored by AI research. -
RPG
Created by IBM. High level, used in business applications. Started as a punch card processing tool and evolved into an HLL equvalent to COBOL. -
COBOL
Written by Grace Hooper. Used by the Department of Defence to create a portable programming language for data processing. -
Basic
Created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. It allowed for students that were not in math or science to use computers. Most students could not write their own system for work. "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour. Was used to teach the concepts of programming and producing line graphics using a little turtle. -
B
Created by Ken Thompson. B was a stripped down version of BCPL to be used on microcomputers. The name came from Bon, another language Thompson developed. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth created PASCAL to practice good programming practices using structured programming and data strusture. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie and was used to reimpliment the Unix operating system. -
ML
Robin Milner created Ml to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. Metalanguage. -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Used to manage data held in a relational database management system or stream processing in RDSMS. Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichibah and Tucker Taft used as a updated standard for the Department Of Defence. The name came from Ada Lovelace known as the first computer programmer. -
C++
Written by Bjarne Stroustrup. Very generic. Used for low memory consumption for low memory systems. Later used on applications, servers and prefomance oriented applications. -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum. General high level programming language. Very widely used. Name was a refrence to Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft to be a simple easy to use and learn language. -
Java
Created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Used to create programs that you could write once and run anywhere. -
Javascript
Written by Brendan Eich. Very lightweight, simple and would complement Java. -
PHP
Written by Rasmus Lerdorf. Written for web development and gerneral use. Uses Zend engine. -
Delphi
Created by Borland Software Corporation to provide database connectivity to programmers but was also used as a rapid application development tool in Windows.