Computers

Programming Languages

By Mannypad

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse and was designed for engineering purposes. The name itself means "Plan Calculus."
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    Languages

    Most of the information I found did not give specific dates. That's why most events will have the standard daya and month.

  • Fortran

    This language was created by John Backus. It is a popular language for high-performance computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    This was designed and created by a group led by Charles Katz. It was intended as an improvement over Fortran.

  • Lisp

    This language was designed by John McCarthy. It is a language favored for research in Artificial Intelligence.

  • RPG

    The language was designed by IBM and was designed for business applications. The name stands for "Report Program Generator."

  • COBOL

    Created by a group named the Community on Data Systems Languages. It was for business use. The name stands for "Common Business-Oriented Language."

  • BASIC

    Created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Its design philosophy emphasizes ease of ues. Stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code."

  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is an educational programming language.

  • B

    It was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.

  • PASCAL

    Created by Niklaus Wirth. The language is a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices.

  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie/ It is widely used for system programming.

  • ML

    Created by Robin Miner and others. It is known for its use of the Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm. Stands for "metalanguage."

  • SQL

    Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It was designed for managing data held in a relational data stream.It stands for "Structured Query Language."

  • ADA

    Designed by the High Order Language Working Group. It was designed for development of very large software systems.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was designed for writing large systems. The name signifies the changes made from C.

  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum. The language can serve as a scripting language for web applications.

  • Visual Basic

    Created by Micorsoft. The language can create an application using the components provided by the program and language.

  • Delphi

    Created by Embarcadero Technologies and Borland. It is used as an intergrated devlopment environment.

  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. It is used as a general-purpose computer programming language.

  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich. It is most commonly used to add client-side behavior to HTML pages.

  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was designed for web development.