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Plankalkül (German: Plan Calculus)
Developed by Konrad Nuse for engineering purposes, first high-level programming language -
Fortran (FORmula TRANslating system)
Developed by IBM for numerical and scientific computation -
MATH-MATIC (AT3 Compiler)
Created by Charles Katz and others as in improvement over FORTRAN, formed base for FLOW-MATIC, which itself formed base for COBOL -
Lisp
Created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs by John McCarthy -
IMB RPG (Report Program Generator)
Created by IBM for business applications, punched card machines -
COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language)
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 -
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, developed to allow students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers -
Logo
Created by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon as an educational language to teach students how to code in LISP -
B
Developed at Bell Labs, created for recursive, non-numeric applications independent of machines, ie. system and language software -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to be efficient and encourage good programming practices and well-structured code -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs, designed to provide low-level access to memory and minimal run-time support -
ML (MetaLanguage)
Developed by Robin Milner at University of Edinburgh in order to develop proof tactics in the LCF data prover -
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Developed by Donald B. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM in order to store and retrieve data from IBM's database -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroutstrup at Bell Labs, created to be a faster, easier language than others at the time -
Ada
Named after Ada Lovelace, developed for Department of Defense to create a single standard language instead of man different ones -
Python
Made by Guido Van Rossum as a successor to ABC language and for code readability -
Visual BASIC
Developed by Microsoft to be easy to learn and use, newer version of BASIC -
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)
Created by Ramsus Lerdorf, designed for web development -
Delphi
Developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows and as a successor to Borland Pascal -
Java
Developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, provided "WORA" (Write Once, Run Anywhere), enabling it to run on all popular platforms -
JavaScript
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
