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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse
Designed for the German war effort
Plankalkul is German for "Plan Calculus" -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus
Designed for numerical and scientific calculations
Fortran comes from FORmula TRANslating System -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Chales Katz
Designed to compete with Fortran
MATH-MATIC does not stand for anything -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy
Designed for artificial intelligence
LISP comes from LISt Processing -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper
Designed for business, financial, and administrative systems
COBOL is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Developed by a team at IBM
Designed for business mainframes
RPG stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Designed for ease of use and compatibility
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
Designed for educational use and graphics
LOGO does not stand for anything. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Designed for use on mainframes
The name "B" has no signifigant meaning -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth
Designed to be small and efficient
PASCAL does not stand for anything -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie
Designed for applications and ease of use
The letter C was chosen because it is one letter after B -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner
Designed to prove mathematical theorems
ML stands for Metalanguage -
SQL
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
Designed for database management
SQL stands for Structured Query Language -
ADA
Developed by a team lead by Jean Ichbiah
Designed for use by the Department of Defense
Named after Ada Lovelace -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Designed to be C with classes and object oriented-programming
C++ is an upgraded version of C -
Delphi
Developed by Niklaus Wirth and Anders Hejlsberg
Designed to improve on the PASCAL language
Delphi is a site of Greek ruins -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum
Designed for ease of use and scripting
Python was named after the comedy group Monty Python -
Visual Basic
Developed by a team from Microsoft
Design for graphical interfaces
Visual Basic is exactly what it sounds like, a visual verison of BASIC -
Java
Developed by James Gosling
Designed to be compatible with any operating system
Java has no signifigant meaning -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich
Designed for scripting
The name Javascript has no signifigant meaning -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
Designed for web development
PHP stands for Personal Home Page