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Programming Languages through the Ages
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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse.
Used for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus.
A general purpose language that is suited for scientific computing and numeric computation.
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MATH-MATIC
Developed by a team led by Charles Katz.
An early language for the UNIVAC 1 and 2. -
Lisp
Developed by John Mcarthy.
Created as a mathematical notation for computer programs.
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COBOL
Developed by Howard Bromberg.
Used for business.
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BASIC
Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.
Used to enable people without a science or math degree the ability to use computers.
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Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich.
Is a multi-paradigm language used by websites. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Daniel Bobrow.
Used for graphics.
Derived from the Greek word Logos. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchi.
Used for recursive, non- numeric applications.
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PASCAL
Developed by Niklause Wirth.
Used to encourage good programming practices.
Named after Blaise Pascal. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchi.
Used to re- implement the Unix operating system. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner.
Used to develop proof tactics in the LCF language.
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SQL
Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce.
Is a special purpose programming language designed for managing data
Structured Query Language -
ADA
Developed by Jean Ichbiah.
Used to supersede other languages.
Was named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Developed by Bjame Stroutstrup.
Used for system programming and helped large systems become more efficient. -
RPG
Developed by Hewlett- Packard.
Used as a handheld calculator operating system.
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Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum.
Used to express concepts in fewer lines of code. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft.
Used as an integrated development environment. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
Used for web development and general purpose programming.
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Delphi
Developed by Borland.
Is a language and software development kit for desktop, mobile, web, and console. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling.
Is a general- purpose language that is object oriented.