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MATH-MATIC
Designed to be an improvement for Fortran by a group led by Charles Katz. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus to make a more practical alternative to assembly language of their IBM 704 mainframe computer. Fortran is derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System. -
COBOL
COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. It was designed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet for business purposes. -
BASIC
Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz to provide computer access to non-science students. -
Logo
This language was created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert to form a "math land" where kids could play with words and sentences. -
Pascal
Pascal was designed and published by Niklaus Wirth in 1970 as a small and efficient programming language in honor of Blaise Pascal. -
SQL
Was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managing data in RDBMS (relational database management systems). SQL (Structured Query Language) -
C
This language was designed by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. -
C++
It was designed by Bjarne Stoustrup as an enhancement to the C language. -
Ada
Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah to supercede the hundreds of programming languages being used by the US Department of Defense at the time. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects, designed by Microsoft. -
Java
Java was initiated by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton and publsihed in 1995 by James Gosling. It was originally made for interactive television, but it was too advanced for TV at the time. It was named after the coffee the developers consumed large amounts of.