Programming Languages

  • 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.