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Plankalul
Created by Konrad Zuse, Used for engineering purposes, Stood for Plan Calculus -
Math-Matic
Created by Charles Katz, Used for functions and expressions, No acronym -
Fortran
Created by John Backus, Used for designing bridges and automation controls, formula translator -
RPG
Created by IBM, Used for report-building, report program generator -
Cobol
Created by Grace Hopper, Used for business and administrative purposes, Common business oriented languages -
Basic
Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, Used for interactive mainframe timesharing, beginners all purpose instruction code -
LOGO
Created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon, Used for creating basic shapes with a turtle cursor, greek word logos, meaning “Thought” -
Pascal
Created by Niklaus Wirth, Used to teach programming, Blaise Pascal -
B
Created by Ken Thompson, Used for machine-independent applications, Name based on Bon -
ML
Created by Robin Milner, Used for theorem-proving projects, Standard metalanguage -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie, Used for implementing operating systems and embedded system applications, Stood for Basic -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, Used for communicating with databases, structured query language -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy, Used for manipulation of data strings, Short for lisp processing -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft, Used by the Department of Defense, Named after Augusta Ada King -
python
Created by Guido van Rossum, used for websites, web applications, and functionality of an application, No acronym -
Virtual Basic
Created by Alan Cooper, Used to choose and modify sections of code, No Acronym -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf, Used for server-side web development, Personal home page -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich, Used as a scripting language for HTML pages, Based on Java -
Java
Created by James Gosling, Used for creating applications, No acronym -
Delphi
Created by Anders Hejlsberg, Used for object-oriented design, Based on Pascal language -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, Used for general-purpose programming, Based on C language