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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.