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Plankalkul
created by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Means formal system for planning. -
Fortran
Created by John Backus for numeric and scientific computing. It stands for Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
created by Sperry Rand and Grace Hopper as an improvment of fortran. -
Lisp
Created by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin as a high-level programming language. Lisp stands for LISt Processing -
COBOL
It was created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. it was created for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. It stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Created by IBM for buisness. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
Basic
Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was created so people other than science and math majors could use computers. BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
It was created by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon as an educational tool. Logo doesnt stand for anything -
B
Created by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. It was created for primarily non-numeric applications. B was contrived from BCPL -
C
Made by Dennis Ritchie. Created for re-implementing the Unix operating system. It's called C because it came after B -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth intended to encourage good programming practices. Pascal is a reference to a 17th century mathmaticion. -
ML
Created by Robin Milner as a general-purpose functional programming language. ML stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for data management. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah and his team. It was develpoped so the military could have a high-level language for embedded systems. It was named for Augusta Ada Byron. -
C++
C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was created for system programming and embedding. It stands for C Object-Oriented Programming Language. -
Python
created by Guido van Rossum that makes code easier to read. It was named after Monty Python -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft as a beginner tool. Visual Basic does not stand for anything. -
Delphi
It was created by Borland. it was created for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. It was called Delphi to go with a current web browser, Oracle. -
Java
Created by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems for easy use on all platforms. Java does not stand for anything. -
JavaScript
Created by Brendan Eich and is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language. It does not stand for anything. -
PHP
created by Rasmus Lerdorf for home pages. PHP stands for Personal Home Page.