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FORTRAN
It was developed in 1957 by John Backus and his team at IBM FORTRAN is an acronym for Formula Translation It was the first high-level language and was developed "to be simple to learn and suitable for a wide variety of applications" (groups.engin.umd.umich.edu) -
MATH-MATIC
It was developed by Grace Hopper in 1957 MATH-MATIC is not an acronym It was developed to redesign the A-0 compiler which was previously made by Sperry Rand -
COBOL
It was developed in 1959 by professionals called the Conference on Data Systems Languages COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language COBOl's primary purpose is to write programs for various businesses -
BASIC
Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964 at Dartmouth College BASiC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instrucction Code It was designed to make the language easy for beginners but with advanced features for th experts. -
LOGO
Developed by a team from MIT in 1967 LOGO is not an acronym LOGO was designed as a tool for learning. -
PASCAL
Developed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth a member of the International Federation of Information Processing Named after mathematician Blaise Pascal The primary purpose was to "allow for the development of well structured and well organized programs, and to serve as a vehicle for the teaching of the important concepts of computer programming" (groups.engin.umd.umich.edu) -
C
C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories C is not an acronym C was designed to be a "fast program execution and allow low access to information and commands while still retaining the portability and syntax of a high level language" (groups.engin.umd.umich.edu) -
SQL
It was developed by John Chamberlin of IBM in 1974 SQL is an acronym for Structured Query Language It was developed to be an easy program to manage data -
ADA
Developed by Jean Ichbiah and his team between 1977-1983. ADA is named after Ada Lovelace (credited as the first computer programmer) It was developed during a competition for a new programming language. -
C++
C++ was developed in 1980 by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories C++ is an upgrage from the program language C It's purpose was to upgrade the program language C and provide capabilities for object-oriented programming -
JAVA
Developed in 1994 by James Gosling of Sun Company JAVA is not an acronym but was originally named Oak JAVA was designed to be simple and easy to use programming language to create programs and that can be run on many different systems -
VISUAL BASIC
It was developed by Microsoft VISUAL BASIC is not an acronym but came from it's predecessor BASIC It was developed for Windows computers to make it easier to write programs for it's operating systems.