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PLANKALKUL language
Plankalkül is a computer language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. It was the first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer. -
LISP Language
It was at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence that John McCarthy first developed the basics behind Lisp. His motivation was to develop a list processing language for Artificial Intelligence. By 1965 the primary dialect of Lisp was created (version 1.5). By 1970 special-purpose computers known as Lisp Machines, were designed to run Lisp programs. 1980 was the year that object-oriented concepts were integrated into the language. By 1986, the X3J13 group formed to -
MATH-MATIC language
MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. Early programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957. -
FORTRAN language
One of the oldest programming languages, the FORTRAN was developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus, and was first published in 1957. The name FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation, because it was designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code. -
RPG language
RPG is one of the few languages created for punched card machines that is still in common use today. This is because the language has evolved considerably over time. It was originally developed by IBM in 1959. The name Report Program Generator was descriptive of the purpose of the language: generation of reports from data files, including matching record and sub-total reports. -
COBOL programming language
COBOL was developed in 1959 by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL). This committee was a formed by a joint effort of industry, major universities, and the United States Government. This committee completed the specifications for COBOL as the year of 1959 came to an end. These were then approved by the Executive Committee in January 1960, and sent to the government printing office, which edited and printed these specifications as Cobol60. COBOL was develope -
BASIC language
Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, created in 1963 by John George Kemeny -
LOGO Language
Logo was developed by a team from MIT, Logo was originally designed to introduce children to programming concepts, to develop better thinking skills that could be transferred to other contexts -
B language
developed by bell labs in 1969-1970 by Ken Thompson. -
PASCAL language
The Pascal programming language was originally developed by Niklaus Wirth, a member of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 2.1. Professor Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal to provide features that were lacking in other languages of the time -
SQL language
SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s. This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s.[ -
C programming language
Created in the early 1970's by Dennis M. Ritchie at bell labs. -
ADA Language
created by Jean Ichbiah. Used for the military. -
ML language
ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the late 1970s at Edinburgh University, whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM -
C++ Programming language
Created in 1983 by Bjarne Straustrup -
VISUAL BASIC Language
Microsoft released Visual Basic in 1987. It was the first visual development tool from Microsoft, and it was to compete with C, C++, Pascal and other well-known programming languages. -
PYTHON language
Python is a very new language; in fact it was released by its designer, Guido Van Rossum, in February 1991 while working for CWI also known as Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Many of Python's features originated from an interpreted language called ABC. Rossum wanted to correct some of ABC's problems and keep some of its features. At the time he was working on the Amoeba distributed operating system group and was looking for a scripting language with a syntax like ABC but with the access to the A -
JAVA language
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Unlike conventional languages which are generally designed either to be compiled to native (machine) code, or to be interpreted from source code at runtime, Java is intended to be compiled to a bytecode, which is then run (generally using JIT compilation) by a Java Virtual machine. -
PHP language
PHP development began in 1994 when the developer Rasmus Lerdorf initially created a set of CGI binaries written in the C programming language which he called "Personal Home Page Tools" to maintain his personal homepage. The tools performed tasks such as displaying his résumé and recording his web-page traffic. -
DELPHI programming language
The Delphi programming language was developed by Borland and is the descendant of Turbo Pascal. Delphi was released in February 1995. Delphi is a native code compiler that runs under Window v3.1 or Windows '95. Delphi is essentially object Pascal with similar programming tools found in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0. -
JAVASCRIPT
JavaScript initialy started out as a scripting language being developed by Netscape called LiveScript™ in the Navigator 2.0 beta version of the browser. This language did not pick up much until Sun Microsystems' Java programming language became popular and Netscape changed the name to JavaScript.