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Plankalkül Appeared
Konrad Zuse designed it for engineering purposes. -
Fortran Appeared
John Backus
Developed for number computation and scientific computing -
Lisp Appeared
John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
It was created as a practical mathmatical notation for computer programs. -
MATH-MATIC Appeared
Charles Katz
Designed to replace Fortran -
COBOL Appeared
Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
The Common Business Oriented language was primarirly created for business applications. -
IBM RPG Appeared
IBM
The Report Program Generator was created to serve as a tool that could replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401. -
BASIC Appeared
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
John George Kemmeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction code was created to teach code and to emphasize ease of use. -
LOGO Appeared
Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cynthia Solomon. Logo is an educational language that was remember for its use of "turtle graphics". -
B Appeared
Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
Created to earn Bell Labs money and serve as a research tool for future languages -
PASCAL Appeared
Nicklaus Wirth
Created as a small and efficient language inteded to encourage good programming practices. -
C Appeared
Dennis Ritchie
Had facilities for structed programming. Many modern programming languages have borrowed from C -
ML Appeared
Robin Milner
A general-purpose language that was designed to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
SQL Appeared
Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
The Structed Query Language was designed to manage data held in a management database system (RDBMS). -
ADA Appeared
Tucker Taft and Jean Ichbiah
Created for the US Department of Defense due to the lack of safe modular programming -
Python Appeared
Guido von Rossum
It was designed to compete with C code and emphasives code readability, and its syntax allowed the programming to shorten code into fewer lines. -
Visual Basic Appeared
Microsoft Organization
Designed to encourage people to become programmers with easy to use features. -
Delphi Appeared
Borland Delphi
Was released for the 16-bit Windows 3.1, and was an early presentation fo what would become known as RAD (Rapid Application Development). -
Java Appeared
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
A language that is designed to have little implementation dependencies so that is could be widely used. -
JavaScript Appeared
Brenden Eich
Was desinged to be used for web browsers. -
PHP Appeared
Rasmus Lerdorf
A language that is designed for both general-purpose programming and web development.