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Plankalkül (Plan Calculus) was designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes and was developed between 1943-45.
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Fortran was developed in 1957 by John Backus and was designed as a general programming language, focusing mostly on computations.
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MATH-MATIC was a programming language that was meant to be an improvement over FORTRAN, it was designed by Charles Katz.
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Lisp (Originally LISP, for LIst Processor) was designed by John McCarthy and utilized by Steve Russell for machine code.
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COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language) was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney for use in businesses.
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RPG (Report Program Generator) was released as a business orientated language by IBM.
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B was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College for use with less technical users, who couldn't use other more difficult languages.
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Logo was designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert primarilly as an educational progamming language, and became famous for its vector graphics.
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The B language was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use with recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.
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PASCAL was published by Niklaus Wirth after being in development since 1978. It was meant an efficient programming language, and was named after Blaise Pascal the French mathmetician.
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C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labrotories as an improved B, with many of the same functions.
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ML (Meta Language) was created by Robin Miler as a general purpose programming language.
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SQL (Structured Query Language) was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce as a language for data management.
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This was the first confirmed use of the ADA language, this iteration was developed by Jean Ichbiah.
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C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup a general purpose language.
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Python is a general purpose language that allows for fewer line syntax, it was developed by Guido van Rossum.
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Microsoft released Visual basic as a language that would be easy to learn and allow for the development of programs.
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Javascript was programmed in 10 days by Brendan Eich, with the purpose of web content production.
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Delphi was initially released to be used with Windows 3.1 and was developed by Anders Hejlsberg.
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Java was developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems for use with the internet.
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PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf and stood for Personal Home Page, although now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It was intended for web development although it has been used for general programming.
