Programming Languages

  • Fortran

    Designed by: John Backus Purpose: Fortran is normally used for numeric computation and Scientific computing fortran stands for FORula TRANslating system.
  • Lisp

    Designed by: John McCarthy Purpose: Lisp was orginally created as practical mathmatic notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    Prmarily Designed by: Grace Hopper
    It was one of the fist Programing languages. Purpose: COBOL is was designed for use in the buisness and finance domain. COBOL stands for COmmon Buisness Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    Developed by: IBM Purpose: RPG was used by IBM to replicate punch card processing. RPG IV provides a modern programming enviorment
  • BASIC

    Designed by: John George Kemeny & Thomas Eugene Klutz Purpose: Designed to let less technical users to program. Stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • Logo

    Dewsigned by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert Purpose: Logo is a educational programming language that was orginally designed to teach programming related to Lisp.
  • B

    Desiged by: Ken Thompson Purpose: B was based on BCPL bt stripped of any non-essential components to fit within the memory capacity of microcomputers
  • Pascal

    Designed by: Niklaus Wirth Purpose: Pascal is a effcient language intended to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    Desiged by: Dennis Ritchie Purpose: To be a straight foward compilier and provide low-level access to memory.
  • Plankalkül

    Designed by: Konrad Zuse Purpose: Plankalkül was designed for engineering purposes.
  • ML

    Designed by: Robin Milner Purpose: ML was designed to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. ML normally stands for Metalanguage
  • SQL

    Designed by: Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce Purpose: SQL was designed for managing data in a relational database management system SQL stands for Structured Query Language.
  • Ada

    Designed by: Jean Ichbiah Purpose: Ada was designed to supersede the programming languages used by the U.S Department of Defense
  • C++

    Designed by: Bjarne Stroustrup Purpose: C++ is an enhancment to C by adding many features like classes, templates, and exception handling
  • Delphi

    Developed by: Apple, Niklaus Wirth Purpose: Main programming language of Embarcardo Delphi
  • Python

    Designed by: Guido Van Rossum Purpose: Python enphasizes code readability and allows exspressing of concepts in fewer lines than most code.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by: Microsoft Purpose: VIsual Basic is intended to be easy to learn and is derived from basic.
  • Java

    Developed by: James Gosling Purpose: Java is designed to be a Write One, Run Anywhere Language that can be run on any Java Virtual Machine regardless of computer architecture.
  • JavaScript

    Designed by: Brendon Eich Purpose: Javascript is commonly used in Web Browsers
  • PHP

    Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf Purpose: PHP is designed for web development.