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Programming Languages

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    Computer Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse, designed to be used in engineering.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz, designed to be an improvement to Fortran.
  • Fortran

    John Backus, designed for scientific and engineering purposes.
  • LISP

    Steve Russel, designed for algorithms.
  • COBOL

    Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney, designed to be used in the Department of Defense.
  • RPG

    IBm, designed for punch card machines.
  • BASIC

    John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, designed as a learning tool.
  • Logo

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, designed to created a math world were children could play with words and sentences.
  • B

    Ken Thompson, designed for non-numeric applications.
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth, designed to have an efficient language that incorporates structured programming.
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie, designed to reimplement the Unix operating system.
  • ML

    Robin Milner. designed for financial operations.
  • SQL

    ISO, IEC, designed around IBM's data system
  • Ada

    Designed to be an improvement on the current language used by the DoD.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup, designed to upgrade C with Simula features.
  • Python

    Guido Van Rossum, designed to work with the Amoeba operating system.
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft, designed to be easy to use in windows.
  • Delphi

    Borland Sofware Corp., designed with database connectivity as a main feature.
  • Java

    James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, designed to be easily cross-platformed.
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich, designed to be a light-weight competetor to Java.
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for web development.