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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse in 1943 for engineering purposes. It was one of the first high level languages but was not published until years later because of the second World War -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN was developed in 1957 by IBM for scientific and numeric computation, thus its name, Formula Translating System, or FORTRAN. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz as a programming language specifically for the UNIVACS and was an improvement upon its predecessor FORTRAN, -
Lisp
Lisp is the second oldest high-level computer language. It was designed by John McCarthy as a program for practical notation of mathematical calculations on computers. Its name derives from 'List Processing', which is how it more easily manipulates large amounts of data. -
COBOL
COBOL is one of the earliest computer languages, designed in late 1959 by Grace Hooper. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, which describes its primary purpose in government, business, private company, and finance. -
RPG
RPG was developed by IBM as the Report Program Generator, which replicated the previously used punched card system. It has evolved since and is still widely used. -
BASIC
BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was designed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz as a set of high level computer languages that anyone could use,a s, at the time, only scientists and mathematicians could because they had to be very specialized and specific to a certain purpose. -
LOGO
LOGO is an educational program designed by Daniel Barbrow to teach its users about not only computer programming, but predictiong and reasoning. -
PASCAL
PASCAL is a procedural programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth to be efficient and manageable to encourage good programming practices. -
B
B language was developed by Bell Labs and the work of Ken Thompson. It is no longer used as it has been superceeded by C language. It was designed by Thompson to be a more streamlined program that would fit in a greater capacity in the computers of the time. -
C
C is a general purpose computer language designed by Dennis Richtie It is compatible with almost all systems and numerous other languages stem from it. -
ML
ML is a general purpose language designed by Robin Miller to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. ML stands for metalanguage. -
SQL
SQL (for Structured Query Language) was designed by Donald Chamberlain in 1974 as a special purpose language specifically for managing data in a relational database management system. -
ADA
ADA was named after Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming. It was designed by Jean Ichbiah and a team of developers for the DoD to be a better version of what they had at the time. -
C++
C++ is an intermediate computer language with both high and low level programming features. It is used for a wide range of hardware and operating systems. It was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Python
Python was designed by Guido van Rossum as a more easily readable and more efficient way of high-level coding that was also general purpose. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was derived from the BASIC language by MIcrosoft in 1991 as a more easily learned and useable language. -
Delphi
Delphi was designed for Windows and easier Windows programming. It was developed by Borderland in early 1995 and is closely related to the language PASCAL -
Java
Java was designed to be as independent as possible, meaning that it operates on almost any system and so is one of the most popular languages in use today. It was developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems in 1995. -
Javascript
Javascript was developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich to run as a part of web browsers. It is used to interact more easily with the user, and in applications such as gaming and desktop tools. -
PHP
PHP was designed by Ramsus Lerdorf as a server-side scripting language for web development and general puropse programming. PHP now stands for hypertext preprocessor.