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