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  -Developed by Konrad Zuse
 -Designed for engineering and calculus
 -Stands for Plan Calculus
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  -Developed by IBM,
 -Designed for numeric computing and scientific computations.
 -Used for weather prediction, computational physics and chemistry.
 -Stands for Formula Translating System.
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  -Developed by Charles Katz.
 -A commercial compiler for the UNIVAC computers.
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  -Developed by John McCarthy
 -Designed for Artificial Intelligence research.
 -Stands for LISt Processing.
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  -Developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages.
 -Designed for business, administrative, and finance systems.
 -Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language
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  -Developed by IBM
 -Used for business operations.
 -Stands for Report Program Generator
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  -Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
 -Designed to develop custom software
 -Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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  -Developed by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Symour Papert, Cynthia Solomon.
 -Designed to teach computer science concepts, especially Lisp.
 -Name derived from the Greek word "logos"
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  -Developed under Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
 -Designed for system and language software.
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  -Developed by Niklaus Wirth
 -Designed for structured programming, data structuring, and object-oriented programming.
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  -Developed under AT&T Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie.
 -One of the most widely used languages of all time.
 -Designed for structured programming and cross-platform programming.
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  -Developed under the University of Edinburgh by Robin Milner.
 -Designed to develop LCM theorem proof tactics.
 -ML stands for MetaLanguage
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  -Developed under the US Department of Defense by John Ichbiah.
 -Designed for the development of very large software systems.
 -Named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.
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  -Developed under Bell Labs by Bjarne Stoustrup.
 -Designed for system programming.
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  -Designed by Guido Van Rossum under the Python Software Foundation
 -High-level language; designed for operating systems
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  -Developed by Microsoft
 -Designed for rapid application development.
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  -Developed by Borland.
 -Designed to develop mobile, console, web, and graphical applications.
 -Generates native code for Windows and Mac OS X
 -Short for Embarcadero Delphi.
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  -Developed under Sun Microsystems by James Gosling.
 -Designed for graphics, threading, and networking.
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  -Developed under Netscape Communications Corporation by Brendan Eich.
 -Designed to develop web browsers, game applications, and mobile applications.
 -Unrelated to Java
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  -Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
 -Designed for web development.
 -Originally stood for Personal Home Page; now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
