Programming

  • Fortran

    Created by a small team led by John Backus. Purpose was to was to write a language that was easy to learn and understand.
  • COBOL

    Created by Dr. Grace Murray Hopper. Stands for "Common Business-Oriented Language".
  • BASIC

    Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. The purpose of it is its used in teaching the introductory concepts of programming with a working language.
  • B

    created by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. Primarily for non-numeric applications such as system programming. These typically involve processing of integers, characters, complex logical decision-making, and bit strings.
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
  • ADA

    created by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. Ada's motivation is to educate a dialect for both early on and propelled software engineering courses, and it has been the subject of huge college research particularly in the zone of continuous advancements.
  • Delphi

    Created by Borland. Purpose is to make programming for Windows easy.
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling.