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Evolution of Coding

By jfiocco1
  • Fortran

    Fortran

    Stands for FORmula TRANslation. For high level computing. Still useful.
  • Cobol

    Cobol

    Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. Used for phones and credit card processing.
  • Basic

    Basic

    Stand for Beginner All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Made for people with a strong technical or mathematical background. First Microsoft product
  • C

    C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie. Named C Because its features were from an earlier language called B.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL

    Named for Blaise Pascal. Used by SKYPE.
  • C++

    C++

    Modified version of C. Very Popular.
  • Perl

    Perl

    Made by Larry Wall. Used by CRAIGSLIST.
  • PYTHON

    PYTHON

    Monty Python was the inspiration for the name. Made by Guido Van Rossum. Used by YouTube, Google Search, and NASA.
  • Ruby

    Ruby

    Yukihiro Matsumoto named Ruby. Made by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Blend of Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp. Used by BASECAMP.
  • PHP

    PHP

    Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. Running over 20 Million websites. Used by Facebook.
  • Java

    Java

    Made by a team led by James Gosling. Runs over 1.1 Billion PCs. Used by 2004 MARS ROVERS.
  • Javascript

    Javascript

    Unrelated to Java and is very different from Java. Made by Brendan Eich. Uses syntax influenced by Csyn. Used by RACKSPACE.
  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails

    Made by David Heinemeier Hansson. Has more than 1800 contributors.