Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Created by Konrad Zuse designed for engineering purposes for computers.
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    Programming Languages

  • FORTRAN

    Created by John Backus for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical calculations.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by Charles Katz it was intended as an improvement over FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy made as a language for artificial intelligent applications.
  • RPG

    Created by IBM developed for developing business applications.
  • COBOL

    Created by Grace Hopper made for business applications that run on large computers.
  • BASIC

    Created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz for the purpose to allow small business owners to develop their own custom software.
  • LOGO

    Created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert as a dialect of Lisp and a tool for learning.
  • B

    Created by Ken Thompson as a BCPL system stripped of any components Thompson felt he could do without.
  • PASCAL

    Created by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structure.
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications.
  • ML

    Created by Robin Milner for the purpose to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
  • SQL

    Created by Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce designed for managing data in a database.
  • ADA

    Created by Jean Ichbiah was formed with the intent to create a programming language suitable for department requirements.
  • C++

    Created by Bjarne Stroustrup to add object-oriented features to its predecessor C.
  • Python

    Created by Guido van Rossum for the purpose of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba OS.
  • Visual Basic

    Created by Microsoft, based on BASIC language, Visual Basic provides a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces.
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling it was designed to take advantage of the World Wide Web.
  • Delphi

    Created by Borland International was designed for use in the object-oriented programming arena, called Object Pascal.
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf as a set of Perl scripts to maintain a personal homepage.