Programming Languages

By lukepem

  • Plankalkül

    Plankalkül, meaning "formal system for planning," was designed by Konrad Zuse for use in engineering.

  • FORTRAN

    The Formula Translating System was created by John Backus. It was specificaly designed to be used for scientific computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was created as an early programming language for UNIVAC. The production team was led by Charles Katz.

  • Lisp

    The name LISP derives from "LISt Processing" It was developed by John McCarthy, and it has been used for AI research.

  • COBOL

    COBOL, the COmmon Business-Oriented Language, was designed by Grace Hopper. It was made to be used in the administrative systems of companies.

  • RPG

    The Report Program Generator was developed by IBM. It was designed to replace punched card processing.

  • BASIC

    BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed BASIC to allow a wider use of computers.

  • Logo

    Logo was designed by ,Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon as an educational, logic based programming language. The name comes from the Greek word, logos.

  • B

    B is a general programming language developed by Ken Thompson. This language is now obsolete; it was replaced by C.

  • ML

    ML stands for "metalanguage." It was developed by Robin Milner.

  • Pascal

    Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was designed to encourage users to adopt good programming practices. The name is in honor to Blaise Pascal.

  • C

    C is a general programming language. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie.

  • SQL

    SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It is a language designed for mannaging a relational database management system. It was created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.

  • Ada

    Ada was named after Ada Lovelace. It was a special language created for the United States Department of Defense. It was designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah.

  • C++

    C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an upgrade to C. C++ added object-oriented features to C.

  • Python

    Python was developed by Van Rossum. It was designed as a high-level programming language. In this language, fewer lines of code are required to express commands and concepts.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is an event-driven programming language designed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn and use.

  • Delphi

    Delphi is an object-oriented programming language produced by Borland.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling, Java was designed to easily run on multiple platforms.

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It was designed to be a nonprofessional version of Java.

  • PHP

    PHP originaly stood for Personal Home Page. It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf to be used primaraly in web development.