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Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse, and used for engineering. This can be translated from german to "plan calculus"
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Designed by John Backrus, Fortran waa developed originally for scientific and engineering puroses. It is derived from Formula Translating System.
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MATH-MATIC was created by a team led by Charles Katz. It was a language used in the UNIVAC.
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Lisp was created by John McCarthy when he was attending MIT. It was first created for mathmatical notation in computer programming. The name comes from LISt Processing.
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COBOL was designed by a medium sized team, but the largest contributor would be Grace Hopper. Cobol was designed for business and finance reasons. COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
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RPG was developed by IBM. It was intended for use in Business applications.
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John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed BASIC language to attract more students to an easier computer programming language to understand, other than math and science majors. BASIC stand for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Logo was created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It was made for education, and remembered mostly because of turtle graphics. The name is derived from greek.
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created this language, it was developed from BCPl but some elements were stripped from it that the creators felt weren’t needed, so that it could fit on minicomputers. Could be named after another language, Bon, that Thompson also created.
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PASCAL was created by Niklaus Wirth. This language was created for the purpose of having a small/efficient language to make good programming practices more popular.
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This language was developed by Dennis Ritchie, and is used in a huge variety of ways, making it a general use language.
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ML was developed by Robin Milner. ML stands for MetaLanguage. The language was created to develop proof in certain instances.
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SQL was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin
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Jean Ichbiah was the head of a team that created this language. It was developed to take the place of the several languages being used in that time for the US Department of Defense, and was named after Ada Lovelace.
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Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, is another general purpose language, meaning it is used in several instances.
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Python was created by Guido van Rossum, for the purpose of allowing progammers to express more, in less lines of code. It is a general purpose high level programming language. It got its name from a comedy series named Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. It is based off of BASIC, and provides a very user friendly program to.. program!
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Java was designed by James Gosling and
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JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich. It is used in webpages, and is very popular. It was originally named LiveScript, but was changed to JavaScript when added support for Java was put in place.
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PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf, with the purpose of web development, but can also be used for general use programming. PHP originally stood for personal home page, but now is hypertext preprocessor.
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Delphi was created by Borland. It is essentialy an alternative to visual basic.