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Plankalkul is a German language designed for engineering by Konrad Zuse.
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John Backus developed this generally-purposed language that ended up being quite well-suited for numeric and scientific computing. It's named as a contraction of FORmula TRANslation.
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This programming language was designed for the UNIVAC by Remington Rand.
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Lisp was designed to easily be able to manipulate data by John McCarthy. It stands for LISt Processing.
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IBM developed this to make business applications.
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Grace Hopper placed forth her time and effort to create this programming language for business applications as opposed to system programs. Its name stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language.
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Meaning Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz developed this programming language to let students in fields not related to science and math use computers.
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This was a joint effort by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Palpert, and Cynthia Solomon, and was designed for functional programming.
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Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, B's purpose was centered towards system development as opposed to numeric computing. It was named as a contraction of BCPL, the language on which it was based.
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Dennis Ritchie created this language to be used for writing an operating system.
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Niklaus Wirth created PASCAL to teach good programming in terms of data structure.
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IBM (Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce) designed this for database communication.
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Used for pattern matching, ML was designed by Robin Milner.
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C++ was created as an extension of C by Bjarne Stroustrup.
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ADA was developed in 1980 by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. It was designed to help detect errors early within the programming, and was named after Augusta Ada Lovelace, better known as Ada Byron.
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Guido van Rossum created this to develop both desktop and web applications.
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Microsoft invented this with the purpose of making it easy to learn and use.
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Rasmus Lerdorf designed this language for web development.
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Created by Borland, Delphi was created to be a Windows application development tool.
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Likely one of the most widely recognised programming languages today, Java was designed by James Gosling to avoid depending on execution.
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Developed by Brendan Eich, Javascript was created to allow users to create interfaces without relying on the reactions of a server.