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Plankalkul
- Engineering purposes
- Konrad Zuse
- Not an acronym
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Fortran
- Originally developed by IBM
- Stands for The IBM FORmula TRANslating System
- Used for scientific and engineering applications
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Math-Matic
- Charles Katz
- Compiler
- Doesn't stand for anything
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Lisp
- John McCarthy
- Used for mathematics, artificial intellegence
- Lisp = LISt Processing
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COBOL
- Grace Hopper
- Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language
- Used primarily for finance and manufacturing applications
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RPG
- Stands for Report Program Generator
- Primarily developed by IBM
- Used for business applications
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BASIC
- Acronym for Beginner's all-purpose symbollic instruction code
- John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
- Made because they wanted to have more students learn computers and computer programming
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Logo
- Daniel Bobro
- Graphical educational language
- Name comes from the greek work "logos" which means "word," as opposed to other languages that were numbers-based
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B
- Name based on "Bon", another programming language
- Developed by Ken Thompson
- Used for Honeywell mainframes
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Pascal
- Designed to effecitntly generate code
- Niklaus Wirth
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ML
- MetaLanguage
- Robin Milner
- General purpose programming language
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C
- Dennis Ritchie
- Has use in The Unix OS
- "C" isn't an acronym
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ADA
- Named after Augusta Ada Lovelace
- Creation project led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah
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SQL
- Designed for managine data
- Stands for Structured Query Language
- Developed by IBM
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C++
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- C++ doesn't sand for anything but it has a "C" because it is the object - oriented version of the "C" programming language
- Can be used for pretty much everything from games to other complex programs
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Pythos
- General purpose, high level language
- Guido Van Rossum
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Visual Basic
- Developed by Microsoft
- One of the first languages with "graphical capabilities," used with businesses a lot
- Not an abbreviation
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PHP
- Used for dynamic web applications
- Rasmus Lerdorf
- Stands for Personal Home Page
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Delphi
- Contains similar programming tools used in Visual Basic
- Not an acronym
- Runs under Windows v.3.1 or Windows'95
- Used for creating standard windows programs
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Java
- James Gosling
- Used for many web and desktop applications
- Not an acronym
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Javascript
- Brendan Eich
- Doesn't stand for anything
- Used in web browsers