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Developed by Konrad Nuse for engineering purposes, first high-level programming language
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Developed by IBM for numerical and scientific computation
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Created by Charles Katz and others as in improvement over FORTRAN, formed base for FLOW-MATIC, which itself formed base for COBOL
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Created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs by John McCarthy
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Created by IBM for business applications, punched card machines
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Developed by a group of people including Grace Hopper, Howard Bromberg, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney, created to be a common language in order to reduce costs of new languages and converting old code to new languages
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Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, developed to allow students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers
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Created by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon as an educational language to teach students how to code in LISP
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Developed at Bell Labs, created for recursive, non-numeric applications independent of machines, ie. system and language software
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Developed by Niklaus Wirth to be efficient and encourage good programming practices and well-structured code
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Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs, designed to provide low-level access to memory and minimal run-time support
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Developed by Robin Milner at University of Edinburgh in order to develop proof tactics in the LCF data prover
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Developed by Donald B. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM in order to store and retrieve data from IBM's database
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Developed by Bjarne Stroutstrup at Bell Labs, created to be a faster, easier language than others at the time
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Named after Ada Lovelace, developed for Department of Defense to create a single standard language instead of man different ones
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Made by Guido Van Rossum as a successor to ABC language and for code readability
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Developed by Microsoft to be easy to learn and use, newer version of BASIC
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Created by Ramsus Lerdorf, designed for web development
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Developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows and as a successor to Borland Pascal
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Developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, provided "WORA" (Write Once, Run Anywhere), enabling it to run on all popular platforms
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Developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, wanted to create a language that appealed to non-professional programmers, similar to how Java appealed to professionals
