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Plankalkul
Designed fo engineering purposes and stands for Plan Calulus in german. It was made by Konrad Zuse and was the first high level non-von neuman language. -
Fortran
A general-purpose, imperitive programming language. It was made for scientific computing and numeric computation. Developed by IBM and designed by John Backus its name is taken from Formula Translating System. -
MATH-MATIC
Early language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II and made to be a better version of FORTRAN. It was developed by Charles Katz and the name is a marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. -
Lisp
Was orignally created for practical mathematical purpose but became known as a language for artificial intelligence. The name comes from List Processing and developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P.Hart and Mike Levin. -
COBOL
Designed for buisness use, it was made by Grace Hopper, William Seldan, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves and Jean E. Sammet. It stands for Common Buisness-Orientated Language. -
RPG
High-level language made for buisness purposes by IBM. it stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
A general high-level language designed to be easy to use. Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz and stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
Logo
Made by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert.
It is an educational programming language and is a adaption and dialect of Lisp. -
Pascal
Made by Niklaus Wirth an intended to teach good programming practices using structured programming. The name came from the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and made for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. The name is derived from BCPL, another language. -
C
General purpose programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie. Allows for structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion which prevents unintended problems. -
ML
Made by Robin Milner, and stands for metalanguage. Developed for proof tactics in the LCF theorm prover and known for the use of Hindley-Milner type interference algorithm. -
SQL
Was made for managing data in a relational database management system. It was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and raymond F. Boyce in 1974. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah and made to surpass other programming languages for the Department of Defense. It was named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
General programming language which is object-orientated and allows for low level memory manipulation. It was designed for systems programming and made by Bjarne Stroustrup. The name was created by using a function inside the language ++ and C which he took from the Language C. -
Python
General-purpose high level language and was made to have fewer lines of code than that of languages such as C. It was developed by Guido van Rossum. -
Visual Basic
An object-based language and IDE that was developed by microsoft. It was desinged to be easy to learn and use and is derived from the language Basic. -
Delphi
It's an IDE (integrated development enviorment) for mobile applications and web design. Was orignally developed to be a tool for windows and was made by Anders Hejlsberg. The name was supposed to be Borland AppBuilder but the name was taken and a previous codename was used. -
Java
Is a object-orientated, class-based and made to have the least amount of dependencies as possible. Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. It was developed to be for interactive television but was too advanced for cable television. -
Javascript
Made by Brendan Eich, was a dynamic programming-language for web browsers and pages.It supports object-orientated and imperative programming styles. Was named to compliment Java and used as a more simple version of Java. -
PHP
Used for web development, it is a server-side scripting lanuage and was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.
