Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul
    Designed by Konrad Zuse. Designed for engineering.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Designed by John Backus. Specifically designed for numeric computation and scientific computing. Name influenced by Formula Translating System.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957. Better version of FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Designed by John McCarthy. Created for mathematical use.
  • COBOL

    COBOL
    Stands for common business-oriented language. Designed and mostly used for business uses. Desgined by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney
  • RPG

    RPG
    Developed by IBM. IBM proprietary programming language
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Made to emphasize ease of use. Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
  • LOGO

    LOGO
    Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Educational programming language used for drawings.
  • B

    B
    Developed my Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Designed for system and language software. Influenced by BCPL
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL
    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Designed for better data structuring.
  • C

    C
    Structured impairitive programming that prevents unintended operations. Desgined by Dennis Ritchie.
  • ML

    ML
    Designed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh. Designed for mathematics and to predict calculus.
  • ADA

    ADA
    A team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France helped Ada to create this language. It was designed for large applications. ADA is not an acronym, she created the language.
  • C++

    C++
    Designed for system programming and embedd. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Python

    Python
    Designed by Guido van Rossum. Emphasizes code readability.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Developed by Microsoft. Designed for users to create applications.
  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Designed to work with applications. Made by Embarcadero Technologies.
  • Java

    Java
    Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Java is concurrent, class-based, and object-oriented,
  • PHP

    PHP
    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Made for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Designed by Brendan Eich, It is high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted. Not related to Java.