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Plankalkul
People - Konrad Zuse
Purpose - designed for engineering purposes, the first high-level programming language on the Computer.
Acronym - German for Plan Calculus -
ML
People - Robin Milner
Purpose - it was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
Acronym - nspired by ISWIM -
FORTRAN
People - John Backus
Purpose - Developed by IBM for scientific and engineering applications,
Acronym - derived from Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
People - Charles Katz
Purpose - AT-3 compiler intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. -
Lisp
People - John McCarthy
Purpose - Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
Acronym - The name LISP derives from "LISt Processor" -
COBOL
People - Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney
Purpose - primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
Acronym - acronym for common business-oriented language -
RPG
Purpose - Originally a tool to replicate punched card processing, and since evolved into an HLL equivalent to COBOL and PL/I
Acronym - Report Program Generator -
BASIC
People - John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
Purpose - A programming software that is easy to use.
Acronym - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
People - Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Purpose - The language was originally conceived to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp and only later to enable a system for students could understand a turtle's motion.
Acronym - It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" -
B
People - Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
Purpose - designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications
Acronym - Based on an earlier programming language. -
C
People - Dennis Ritchie
Purpose - used to re-implement the Unix operating system
Acronym - The letter C -
PASCAL
People - Niklaus Wirth
Purpose - intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
Acronym - Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
SQL
People - Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose - designed for managing data held in a RDBMS, or for stream processing in a RDSMS.
Acronym - Structured Query Language -
ADA
People - A team led by Jean Ichbiah
Purpose - to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the Department of Defense.
Acronym - Named after Ada Lovelace -
C++
People - Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose - t was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems.
Acronym - it was renamed from C with Classes to C++ ("++" being the increment operator in C) -
Python
People - Guido van Rossum
Purpose - Its design philosophy emphasizes codereadability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code
Acronym - It was meant to be fun, so the name is based on Monty Python -
Visual Basic
People - Derived from a system by Alan Cooper
Purpose - To be an easy-to-use programming language -
Delphi
People - The chief architect behind Delphi was Anders Hejlsberg
Purpose - for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobileapplications.[1]
Acronym - reference to the Oracle at Delphi. -
Java
People - James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Purpose - designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere"
Acronym - Java Coffee -
Javascript
People - Brendan Eich
Purpose - Netscape wanted a lightweight interpreted language to compete with others.
Acronym - Originally Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript. -
PHP
People - Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose - web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
Acronym - Originally Personal Home Page, it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.