Programming languages

  • Plankalkül

    Designed by Konrad Zuse designed for engineering purposes
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy for practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Fortran was developed by John Backus for numeric and scientific computing
  • Math-Matic

    Created by Charles Katz for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II
  • COBOL

    primarily developed by Grace Hopper for use in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM for use on IBM i or OS/400 based systems.
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz and was used in early computers.
  • Logo

    Logo was created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert for the movement and drawing of line graphics
  • B

    B is a programming language created by Ken Thompson and used for low memory systems.
  • PASCAL

    developed by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    C
    Created by Dennis Ritchie for general use and allows structured programming.
  • ML

    created by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh for developing proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
  • SQL

    Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managing data held in a relational database management system.
  • ADA

    ADA
    ADA is a programming language developed by Jean Ichabiah and used for safety/critical software.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for general purpose programming. Built upon the C programming language.
  • Python

    Python
    Created by Guido van Rossum for code readibility and shortness.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Developed by Microsoft for its COM programming model.
  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Developed by Apple, Niklaus Wirth, and Anders Hejlsberg. used primarily for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
  • Java

    Java
    Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Created so that so that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.
  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Javascript was developed by Brendan Eich to be used as part of web browsers that allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed
  • PHP

    PHP
    created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.