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Plankalkul
It was created by Konrad Zuse. It was designed for engineering purposes. In german Plankalkul means "Plain Calculus". -
Fortran
Created by John Backus. It is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. The name derived from Formula Translating System. -
LISP
Created by John McCarthy. It was originally created as a pratical mathematical notation for computer programs. LISP stands for list processing. -
COBOL
Created by Howard Bromberg, Vernon Reeves, Jean Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. It was designed for business use. It stands for common business-oriented language. -
RPG
It was created by IBM. It is a high-level programming language (HHL) for business applications. The name stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny ad Thomas Kurtz. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
It was created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It was originally conceived to teach the concepts of programming related to LISP. LOGO derivied from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought". -
B
Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was designed for recursie, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software. B is a smaller and more compact code than BCPL so it was just named B. -
PASCAL
It was created by Niklaus Wirth. It was a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structureing. It was named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie. C provides constructs that map efficiently to typcial machine instructions. -
ML
It was created by Robin Milner. It was a general-purpose functional programming language. ML is often referred to as an impure functional language. -
SQL
It was created by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. It is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a realtional database managment system (RDSMS). The name stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah. I was originally targeted at embeed and real-time systems. It was named after Ada Lovelace. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is a general purpose language. It is a inproved version of C so he added the ++. -
MATH_MATIC
Created by Stephen Wolfram. It is used in many scientific, engineering, mathmatical, and computing fields. It is sometimes called a computer algebra program. -
Python
It was created by Guido Van Rossum. It was a general-purpose, high-level language. -
Visual Basic
It was created by Microsoft. It was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. -
Delphi
Created by Borland. Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. -
Java
Created by James Gosling. It is a general-purpose language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich. It is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted language. -
PHP
It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was a server-side scripting language designed for web development but alos used as a general-purpose language. PHP orignally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backrnym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.