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  Designed for engineering purposes.
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  Made for computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, and computational chemistry.
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  Created as an improvement to FORTRAN.
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  Mathematical notation for computer programs.
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  Designed for business use.
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  Designed for business applications.
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  Designed to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers, as most computer required custom software.
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  Remembered for its use of “turtle graphics.”
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  Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.
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  Designed to be small and efficient to encourage good programming practices.
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  Used to re-implement Unix operating system.
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  Made to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
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  Designed for stream processing in a relational data stream management
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  Uses compiler to find errors in favor of runtime errors.
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  Designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems.
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  Designed to reduce lines of codes necessary.
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  Designed, fittingly, to accommodate a steep learning curve.
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  Rapid application development tool for Windows.
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  Designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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  It's a high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language.
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  Designed for web development.