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Planalkul
designed by Korad Zuse – Plan Calculus in German – designed for engineering purposes -
FORTRAN
Designed by John Backus – acronym for Formula Translating System – developed for science and engineering applications -
MATH-MATIC
designed by Charles Katz – math automatic? – intended as an improvement of FORTRAN -
LISP
designed by Steve Russel – List Programming – created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
COBOL
designed by Grace Hopper – acronym of COmmon Business-Oriented Language – To form a common business programming language -
RPG
designed by IBM – Report Program Generator – designed for business aplications -
BASIC
designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz – acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code – made to be an easy to learn and simple to understand computer language -
LOGO
derived from the greek word thought – to teach concepts of programming related to LISP -
B
designed by Bell Labs, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie – named after BCPL or possibly B – BCPL stripped of any component Thompson didn’t see as useful -
PASCAL
designed by Niklaus Wirth – Named in honor of Blaise Pascal – designed to encourage good programming practices -
C
designed by Dennis Ritchie – because its features were derived from B – To improve upon B language and was tied to the development of the Unix operating system -
ML
designed by Robin Milner – metalanguage – to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover -
SQL
designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce – Structured Query Language –designed for managing data held in a relational database management system -
ADA
designed by CII Honeywell Bull, Jean Ichbiah – named after Ada Lovelace – Created to suit the needs of the Department of Defense -
C++
designed by Bjarne Stoustrup – name is a pun involving the increment operator – To enhance C with Simula like features -
Delphi
designed by Apple, Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg – codename for the program - Developed as a rapid application development tool for windows -
Visual Basic
designed by Microsoft – BASIC with a visual interface therefore Visual Basic – designed to be easy to learn and for Microsoft’s COM programming model -
Python
designed by Guido van Rossum – derived from television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus – emphasizes code readability -
PHP
designed by Rasmus Lerdorf – Personal Home Page – designed for web development -
Java
designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems – named to sound dynamic revolutionary lively and fun – made to give web developers a common platform that would work on any hardware -
Javascript
designed by Brendan Eich – ploy to say it was the hot new programming language – commonly used part of web browsers who’s scripts need to interact with the user