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Developed by Konrad Zuse as the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer
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Developed by a team at IBM led by John Backus to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
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Developed by Remington Rand as a programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
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Developed by Grace Murray Hopper to be part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing.
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Developed by IBM as an alternative for the punch card processing system on the IBM 1401
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Developed by John McCarthy originally as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, but soon became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence.
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Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to run General Electric's computer system.
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Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert to create a mathematical land where children could play with words and sentences and give informative error messages.
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Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming.
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Developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming with the emphasis of using conditional and loop structures without the use of GoTo statements.
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Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson to construct utilities running on the Unix operating system.
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Developed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
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Developed by Raymond Boyce for getting access and modifying data held in data bases
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Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension to C.
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Developed by Jean Ichbiah to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used in military projects
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Developed by Guido van Rossum on the emphasis of code legibility and it's syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
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Developed by Microsoft to make it easier to write programs for the Windows Computer Operating System.
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Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf to build simple, dynamic web applications.
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Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software.
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Developed by a team at Sun Microsystems Inc. led by James Gosling to create a new language that would allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other.
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Developed by Brendan Eich to create a programming language for a new web browser Netscape at the time.