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PLANKALKUL
Created by Konrad Zuse. Short for PLAN Calculus. Made for engineering and performs calculations. -
Math-Matic
Created by Charles Katz. Made as an improvement over FORTRAN. -
LISP
Created by Steve Russell. Stands for LISt Processing. Made for artificial intelligence research. -
COBOL
Created by Grace Hopper. Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. Used in business, finance, and adminstrative systems. -
RPG
Created by IBM. Stands for Report Program Generator. Made to replicate punch-card processing, then evolve into something like COBOL. -
BASIC
Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbotic Instruction Code. Developed to teach students computer programming. -
Logo
Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Made to teach programming concepts related to LISP. -
B
Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Made for use in multics program. -
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C
Created by Dennis Ritchie. Used for making operating systems and text editors. -
Pascal
Created by Niklaus Wirth. Made to encourage good programming practices through structured programming and data structuring. -
ML
Created by Robin Milner. Stands for Meta Language. Used as the language for LCF theorem prover (basically, it does math). -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Stands for Structured Query Language. Made to manage data in databases. -
Ada
Created by Jean Ichbiah. Named after first female programmer Ada Lovelace. Made for large computer systems like aircraft -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Used in softwares, applications, device drivers, and video games. -
Delphi
Designed by Apple. Made to support Mac applications. -
Python
Created by Guido Van Rossum. Made for more concise programming language than others commonly used and also used for a variety of task-general purpose programming language. -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft. Made to make applications quickly and easily, access databases and ActiveX components. -
Java
Created by James Gosling. Made for network and file-access restrictions. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich. Made for browsers to allow interaction control. -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Stands Hypertext Pre-Processor. Made to generate web pages and can be combined with HTML. -
FORTRAN
Created by John Backus. Stands for FORmula TRANslating system. Made for numeric computation and scientific computing.