Programming Languages

  • Plankalkül

    Plan Calculus
    Konrad Zuse
    Designed for enginneering purposes
  • Fortran

    FORmula TRANslating system
    Developed by IBM
    General purpose
  • Math-Matic

    Intended to be an improvement for Fortran
    Charles Katz
  • Lisp

    John McCarthy
    LISt Programming
    Programming language for artificial intelligence
  • RPG

    IBM propietary language
    Developed by IBM
  • COBOL

    Grace Hopper
    Acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language
    Used for business
  • Basic

    Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    They wanted students that weren't math or science to use computers
  • Logo

    Educational Programming Language
    Wally Feurzeig and Seymore Papert
    Name came from the Greek word 'Logos'
  • B

    Name might be based on Bon
    Written by Ken Thompson
  • Pascal

    Niklaus Writh
    Intended to encourage good programming practices
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie
    General purpose programmng language
  • ML

    Metalanguage
    Robin Milner
    General purpose functional programming language
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language
    Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
  • ADA

    Meant for real time Systems
    Designed by Jean Ichbiah and CII Honeywell Bull
    Named after Ada Lovelace
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Intermediate-level Language
    Originally named "C with Classes"
  • Delphi

    Apple, Larry Tesler, Niklaus Writh
    Known as Object Pascal
  • Pyhton

    high level programming language
    Guido van Rossom
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft
    Intended to be easy to use
  • Java

    James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
    Made to run on any JVM
  • JavaScript

    Mostly used in web browsers
    Brendan Eich
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf
    PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
    Used on a lot of websites