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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse, and primarily used for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus, for scientific and engineering applications. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand, and is a different name for Algebraic Translator 3, a compiler. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy, and its name is from LISt Processor. It was originally designed for practical mathematical notation. -
COBOL
Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden,and Gertrude Tierney. Made to be used for financial processing, and the acronym is Common Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM, and was made to replicate punched card processing. RPG stands for report program generator. -
BASIC
Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, it is meant for simple and beginner coding. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon, and is widely known for its use of turtle graphics. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, it is meant for use on recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. The B is derived from BPCL, another lanuage. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth, and is used for structured programming and data-structuring -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie, and id used for system development. -
ML
Designed by Robert Milner, and it is known for of polymorphic Hindley-Milner system. -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, it is used for managing data. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Designed for large, long-lived applications, Led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup,and is designed for system programming. -
Python
Desinged by Guido van Rossum, and primarily known for its code readibility. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, and it is was designed for easy use and understandability. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling, designed for as few implementation dependencies as possible. -
JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich, it is used to make webpages interactive. -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, and used for web development primarily. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland, it is used for desktop, mobile, web and console applications.