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Konrad Zuse, designed to be used in engineering.
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Charles Katz, designed to be an improvement to Fortran.
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John Backus, designed for scientific and engineering purposes.
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Steve Russel, designed for algorithms.
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Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney, designed to be used in the Department of Defense.
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IBm, designed for punch card machines.
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John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, designed as a learning tool.
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Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, designed to created a math world were children could play with words and sentences.
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Ken Thompson, designed for non-numeric applications.
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Niklaus Wirth, designed to have an efficient language that incorporates structured programming.
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Dennis Ritchie, designed to reimplement the Unix operating system.
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Robin Milner. designed for financial operations.
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ISO, IEC, designed around IBM's data system
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Designed to be an improvement on the current language used by the DoD.
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Bjarne Stroustrup, designed to upgrade C with Simula features.
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Guido Van Rossum, designed to work with the Amoeba operating system.
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Microsoft, designed to be easy to use in windows.
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Borland Sofware Corp., designed with database connectivity as a main feature.
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James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, designed to be easily cross-platformed.
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Brendan Eich, designed to be a light-weight competetor to Java.
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Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for web development.