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Developed by an IBM team led by John Backus
First high-level language. used in supercomputing applications
FORmula TRANslation -
Created by a group led by Charles Katz
Intended as an improvement over Fortran
Completed same year as FLOW-MATIC -
Developed by John McCarthy
Made for practical mathematical notation for computer programs
LISt Processor -
Developed by Grace Hopper and CODASYL
Primarily used in finance, business, and administrative systems for businesses and governments
COmmon Business-Orientated Language -
Developed by IBM
Used for business applications
Report Program Generateor -
Created by Thomas Eugene Kurtz and John George Kenny, Dartmouth
Used in home computers, simple games, programs, and utilities
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Created by Daniel G. Gobrow, Wall Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon
Used for turtle graphics
Named derived from the Greek word logos, meaning thought -
Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
Used in machine independent application, and system and language software -
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Used for teaching programming
Named after Blaise Pascal -
Developed by ISO/IEC
Designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database management system
Structured Query Language -
Created by Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
Used for cross-platform programming, system programming, UNIX programming, and computer game development.
Got its named from an earlier language called B -
Created by Robin Milner and others
Can automatically infer the types of most expressions without requiring explicit type annotations
MetaLanguage -
Created by Jean Ichbiah
Used in banking, manufacturing, transportation, commercial aviation, and Dept. of Defense
Named after Ada Lovelace -
Created by Bjarne Stroustrop, Bell Labs
Used in commercial application development, embedded software, server/client applications, and video games
Named comes from ++ the increment operator in C -
Created by Guido Van Rossum, CWI
Used in web applications, software development, and information security
Named after the British comedy troupe Monty Python -
Developed by Microsoft
Enables the rapid application development of graphical user interface application
Derived from BASIC -
Rasmus Lerdorf
Used fo building/maintaining dynamic web pages, and sever-slide development
Personal Home Page -
Created by Brendan Eich, Netscape
Used in dynamic web development, PDP documents, web browsers, and desktop widgets
Final name choice after Mocha and Livescript -
Developed by Bordland
Used in Windows programming
Named after the Oracle at Delphi -
Created by James Gosling, Sun Microsystems
Used in network programming, web application development, software development, and Graphic user interfac development
Got its name from the amount of coffee consumed while developing the language -
Created by Konrad Zuse
First high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer
German for "Plan Calculus"