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Fortran
Fortran, which stands for Formula Translation, was created by a group of IBMers led by Jack Backus to translate math simply into code. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC is a programing language and the Marketing Name for the Algebraic Translator 3 compiler. The language was used for Univac and Univac II and was created by Charles Katz and Grace Hopper. -
Cobol
Cobol was invented by Grace Murray Hopper so that programs could run on more than one manufacturer's computer. Cobol is an acronym for common business-oriented language -
Lisp
Lisp was created as a practical mathematical notation for programmers by John McCarthy at MIT. Lisp is derived from LISt Processor. -
Basic
Basic was developed John Kemeny and Thomas Kurts as a teaching tool for undergraduates at Dartmouth University. Basic stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
LOGO is an educational programming language developed by Wally Feurzeig used to teach students about LISP. The name comes from the Greek word for thought -
B
B was development by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B's main purpose was to allow coding projects at the time to fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time. The name of the language is derived from BCPL -
ML
ML(Meta Language) was developed by Robin Milner at the Universite of Edinburghn to prove the LCF theorm -
Pascal
Pascal is a programming language developed in 1970 by a Swedish Man named Nicklaus Wirth which was used to teach structured programming. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie for constructing utilities that run on Unix. It gets its name as it is the sucessor to the programming language "B" -
ADA
Development of ADA by a french team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah for creating large scale software systems.The language is named after a mathmatician named Ada lovelace -
Java
Java was developed James Gosling to program household items. The language was originally named oak after a tree outside of Gosling's office but he later changed it to "Java" since that was his favorite coffee brand. -
Delphi
Delpi was developed by Anders Hejlsberg as a rapid applicaiton making tool.The language gets it's name from an oracle due to its ability to communicate with Oracle database management system. -
Javascript
Javascript was developed by Brendan Eich to create one of the world's first web browsers. It's name was created by the company that hired Eich. -
C++
C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup to make coding in C easier and more pleasant. It gets its name as it is considered a better version of C.
