Programming Languages

By evananders

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Designed for engineering purposes. "plan Calculus"

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus and IBM. Used for scientific computing and numeric computation. "Formula Translation"

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Remington Rand. Designed for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. It is an AT-3 compiler. "Algebraic Translator"

  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy. Created for mathematical notation for programs.

  • COBOL

    Developed by CODASYL, ANSI, ISO. Designed for business use. Used for finance in big companies. Acronym for "Common Business-Oriented Language".

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. Used for business applications. "Report Program Generator"

  • BASIC

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Used to make programming easier for people who did not have the mathematical skills at the time. Acronym for "Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".

  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon. Used to create line graphics with a "turtle".

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Used for machine independent applications.

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Used for structured programming and data structuring.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. General purpose programming language. C is a procedural language.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner and others. Used for general-purpose functional programming. "Meta Language"

  • SQL

    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Used for managing data in a "relational database management system". "Structured Query Language"

  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah. It is a object-oriented programming language that improves code safety.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. General-purpose, object-oriented programming language.

  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum. General-purpose language that allows fewer lines than other languages.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. Used for Microsoft's "Component Object Model". Derived from BASIC.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Can be ran on any platform that supports Java.

  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich. Used to make webpages interactive and to make video games.

  • PHP

    Developed by PHP Development Team and Zend Technologies. Used primarily for web development.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies. Has been being developed since 2009. Desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.