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Konrad Zuse - (German for Plan Calculus) - Provides a structure called generalized graph that is used to show geometrical structures.
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Charles Katz - Designed as a language for the UNIVAC I and the UNIVAC II.
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John Backus (IBM) - (Formula Translation) - Designed as an alternative language for the IBM 704 mainframe computer.
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John McCarthy - Designed as a practical math notation for computer programs; became favored AI language.
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CODASYL - (Common Business-Oriented Language) - Designed for the Department of Defense effort to make a portable programming language for data processing.
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IBM - (Report Program Generator) - Originally designed to generate reports from data files on the IBM 1401 punch card processor.
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John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz - (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) - Designed for ease of use by students, hobbyists, etc so that they could design their own software.
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Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon - Designed largely for the purpose of directing robots using line graphics.
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs) - Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, like system and language software.
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Niklaus Wirth - Designed to be small and efficient; intended to encourage programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
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Dennis Ritchie - Designed to provide low-level access to memory and to require minimal run-time support; encourages cross-platform programming.
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Robin Milner (University of Edinburgh) - (Meta Language) - Used in programming language research and one of the only languages to be verified by using formal semantics.
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Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce (IBM) - (Structured Query Language) - Designed for managing data held in a RDBMS or for stream processing in a RDSMS.
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Jean Ichbiah - Designed for the development of large software systems.
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Bjarne Stroustrup (Bell Labs) - Designed for use in system programming and embedded, resource-constrained systems.
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Guido van Rossum - Designed as a simple to implement general language; often used to add programmable interfaces to existing applications.
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Microsoft - Derived from BASIC; allows a user to develop applications easily with the VB program.
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James Gosling (Sun Microsystems) - Designed to allow applications to be developed easier and allow them to be run anywhere.
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Borland - Designed as a rapid application development tool for Windows; successor of Turbo Pascal.
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Rasmus Lerdorf (Zend Technologies) - (Hypertext Preprocessor) - Designed to build simple web applications; can be implemented into webpages alongside HTML.
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Brendan Eich (Netscape Communications) - Designed to make webpages interactive and allow for online programs to be ran such as video games.
