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Plankalkul
Developed by: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Engineering
Name: German for "Plan Calculus" -
Fortran
Developed by: John Backus
Purpose: Numeric Computation/Scientific Computing/General-purpose
Name: FORmula TRANslation -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by: Grace Hopper/Charles Katz
Purpose: Algebraic Equations/Arithmetic
Name: N/A -
Lisp
Developed by: John McCarthy
Purpose: Artificial Intelligence research, mathematical notation
Name: LISt Processor -
COBOL
Developed by: Howard Bromberg/Howard Discount/Vernon Reeves/Jean E. Sammet/William Selden/Gertrude Tierney
Purpose: Business use
Name: Common Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Developed by: IBM
Purpose: High-level Business Use
Name: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by: John G. Kemeny/Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: General-purpose
Name: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
Developed by: Wally Feurzeig/Seymour Papert
Purpose: Education
Name: The Greek "logos", meaning word/thought -
B
Developed by: Ken Thompson/Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: System and Language Software/Machine Independent Applications
Name: N/A -
Pascal
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: Encouraging cleaner programming
Name: In honor of Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician/philosopher -
C
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie/Bell Labs
Purpose: General-purpose
Name: N/A -
ML
Designed by: Robin Milner/Members of the University of Edinburgh
Purpose: General-purpose
Name: MetaLanguage -
SQL
Developed by: Donald D. Chamberlin/Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: Managing Data
Name: Structured Query Language -
ADA
Developed by: Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: Large applications/Embedded Systems
Name: Based off of Ada Lovelace, known as the "world's first programmer" -
C++
Developed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: General-purpose
Name: N/A -
Visual Basic
Developed by: Microsoft
Purpose: User Interface development with graphical assistance -
Python
Developed by: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: High-level General-purpose
Name: Reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus -
PHP
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Server-side scripting/General-purpose
Name: Personal Home Page/PHP: Hypertext Processor -
Java
Developed by: James Gosling
Purpose: General-purpose
Name: Based off of the coffee of the same name -
JavaScript
Developed by: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Internet content
Name: Confused for regular Java -
Delphi
Developed by: Embarcadero Technologies
Purpose: Application Development
Name: Codename for development