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Period: to
Computer Age
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MATH_MATIC
Created by Charles Katz
Intended as a replacemaet for FORTRAN on UNIVAC machines. -
FORTRAN
John Backus submited the Formula Translating System idea to IBM, witch used the system for scientific computing, and numeric computations -
COBOL
Acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
Developed by a group of university, government and private industry scientists. -
BASIC
Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to provide computer acess to non-computer science students. -
LOGO
created as a teaching tool by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Teache Computer science concepts -
PASCAL
Invented by Nicalus Wirth.
Used to teach student s structured programing. -
C
C was created by Dennis Ritchie for Unix OS.
C is widely used, few computers don't have a C Compiler.
Derrived from"B" -
SQL
SQL means Structured Query Language.
Developed by Edward Codd
Used to retrive and compute data -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah contracted by DoD to become DoD standard language.
Reliable in mission-critical components.
Names after Ada Lovelace, creditid to be the first programer. -
C++
Intermediate language, comprises both high-level and low-level.
Bjarne Stroustrup developed language to be fast, and not too low level.
Name means New C -
VISUAL BASIC
Derrived from BASIC to provide quick development of applications for Graphical User Interface. Programers put together components provided by visual basic. -
JAVA
Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Dsigned to be easy to use, and is widely used today.