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Plankalkul
Plankalkul is a German language designed for engineering by Konrad Zuse. -
Fortran
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. -
MATH-MATIC
This programming language was designed for the UNIVAC by Remington Rand. -
Lisp
Lisp was designed to easily be able to manipulate data by John McCarthy. It stands for LISt Processing. -
RPG
IBM developed this to make business applications. -
COBOL
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. -
BASIC
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. -
LOGO
This was a joint effort by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Palpert, and Cynthia Solomon, and was designed for functional programming. -
B
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. -
C
Dennis Ritchie created this language to be used for writing an operating system. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth created PASCAL to teach good programming in terms of data structure. -
SQL
IBM (Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce) designed this for database communication. -
ML
Used for pattern matching, ML was designed by Robin Milner. -
C++
C++ was created as an extension of C by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
ADA
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. -
Python
Guido van Rossum created this to develop both desktop and web applications. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft invented this with the purpose of making it easy to learn and use. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf designed this language for web development. -
Delphi
Created by Borland, Delphi was created to be a Windows application development tool. -
Java
Likely one of the most widely recognised programming languages today, Java was designed by James Gosling to avoid depending on execution. -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich, Javascript was created to allow users to create interfaces without relying on the reactions of a server.