Programming Language

By corymxl

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul, or plan calculus, was created in the late 40's by Konrad Zuse. This language was intended to be used for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Fortran, an abreviation for Formula Translating System, was created by John Backus. This language is used today for some of the most advanced supercomputing tasks, some being astronomy, and weather and climate modeling.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was the makerting name for the computer language AT-3. It was created by Charles Katz and was a early language developed for the UNIVAC 1 and 2.

  • Lisp

    Lisp. or Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol, was created by John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was used mainly as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • COBOL

    COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is one of the oldest computer languages and was created by a comittee of researchers, universities, and the government. As the years go by, COBOL is updated and advanced to make using a computer easier to use by adding keywords to control different computer functions.

  • RPG

    RPG, or Report Program Generator, was created by IBM and is used mainly for buisness applications.

  • BASIC

    The BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) language was designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurts at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. This language was used to make the computer usage easier and more universal.

  • LOGO

    LOGO was created by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. LOGO is an acronym that came from the greek logos meaning word or thought. It is used to make 2 dimensional shapes with lines.

  • B

    The computer language B was created in the Bell Labs by Ken Thompson. It was thought that this language was named after Ken's BCPL language he had used previously. This language was used for the smaller size, increasing its pupularity among the limited space of minicomputers.

  • Pascal

    Pascal was named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal and was created by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal is used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems.

  • C

    The C language was created by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs. It is often used for computer progrmming because of its efficiency, and ability to access specific hardware addresses.

  • ML

    ML, or metalanguage, was developed by Robin Milner at the Universty of Edinburgh. It was made to help develope proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

  • SQL

    SQL, or Structured Query Language, was created by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. This language was developed to be used for managing data stored in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

  • ADA

    The ADA language was created by Jean Ichiah during a 6 year span between 1977 and 1983. It was named after Ada Lovelace, who is often though of as the first computer programmer. It is used mainly for the government, banking systems, commercial aviation, communications systems, and
    manufacturing.

  • C++

    This language was created by Bjarne Stroustrup at the Bell Labs. The reason the language was created is that when Bjarne was writing his Ph.D. thesis. Being one of the most popular languages, there are several uses for it. Some of them are systems software, application software, and device drivers.

  • Delphi

    Deplhi, or Object Pascal, was created by a collaberation between Apple, Niklaus Wirth, and Anders Hejlsberg. This language was created to help program computers easier.

  • Python

    Python was created by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands. This languuage was intended to be used for its enhanced readability for easier coding.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was created my Microsoft in the early 90's and is used for many different things. Some of which include: Remote Data Objects, Data Access Objects, ActiveX Data Objects, etc.

  • JAVA

    Java was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems which is now known as the Oracle Corporation. It is mainly used for World Wide Web applets, cross-platform application development, and other network applications.

  • Javascript

    Javascript was created by Brendan Eich. It is mainly used for web browsers who allow the user to control the browser and alter document content.

  • PHP

    Created by Rasus Lerdorf, PHP stood for personal home page. Since the creation however, the PHP language has switched hands to the PHP group, and now stands for Hypertext Processor. It was designed for web developement but is sometimes being used for other things such as a general-purpose programming language.