Programming Languages

By Tybor2

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was created by Konrad Zuse for the purpose of engineering. In German Plankalkul means Plan Calculus.

  • FORTRAN

    FORTAN was developed by IBM for scientific and engineering applications. FORTRAN stands for "The IBM Mathematical FORmula Translating System".

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz. It was meant to be an improvement over Fortran.

  • LISP

    LISP was created in 1958 by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • COBOL

    COBOL was created by Grace Hopper so businesses could share a common programming language. COBOL stands for "COmmon Business-Oriented Language"

  • RPG

    RPG was developed by IBM for business applications. It stands for Report Program Generator

  • BASIC

    BASIC was created by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas. It was designed to be a teaching tool for undergraduates and students. BASIC is an acronym for "Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"

  • LOGO

    LOGO was developed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It was made for kids so students could understand a turtles motion by imagining what they would do if they were the turtle.

  • B

    B was developed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. They created it for non-numeric applications.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL was develloped by Nicklaus Wirth. he created it to encourage good programming practices.

  • C

    C was created by Dennis Ritchie for general purposes.

  • ML

    ML was developed by Robert Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. ML satnds for MetaLanguage

  • SQL

    SQL was developed by Donald D. CHamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It was created to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language.

  • C++

    C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was designed to improve upon the popular C language.

  • ADA

    ADA was created by a team led by Jean Ichbiah.
    The purpose was to compress the numerous amounts of programming languages used by the US Department of Defense.

  • PYTHON

    PYTHON was developed by Guido Van Rossum. It was created to improve upon the ABC language

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was created by Microsoft. It was made to be realtively easy to learn and use.

  • Delphi

    Delphi was created by Borland to develop 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

  • Java

    Java was created by James Gosling and was designed so it was able to be written on one system and usable on any others.

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was created by the company Netscape. It was created to appeal to nonprofessional programmers.

  • PHP

    PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf with the purpose of web development. It originally meant Personal Home Page, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor