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Fortran -- Formula Translation
Developed by John Backus and IBM. Useful for Science. -
MATH-MATIC
Program for the UNIVAC. Developed by Remington Rand. -
LISP -- List Processor
Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin developed this general-purpose language. -
COBOL -- Common Business-Oriented Language
As the name suggests, this language is used for business. Developed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO. -
RPG -- Report Program Generator
Used primarily in business. Developed by IBM. -
BASIC -- Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed this language for beginners. -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon developed this language to help prepare people for working with this language's counterpart, Lisp. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson for language software. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Seems to have been a training language for other languages. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson. General-purpose. -
ML -- Meta Language
General-Purpose. Developed at the University of Edinburgh. -
SQL -- Structured Query Language
Developed by ISO. -
Ada
Jean Ichbiah developed this for large programs -
C++
General-Purpose language developed Bjarne Stroustrup -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft to be similar to BASIC, but more focused towards the graphics. -
Python
A general-purpose language designed by Guido van Rossum. (My personal favorite) -
Delphi
Developed by Borland. For programming Windows. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling. My research suggests that it is general-purpose. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Used by website developers. -
JavaScript
Main use is for website construction and development. Developed by Brendan Eich.