Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    designed by Konrad Zuse-Plankalkul means formal system for planning-designed for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    designed by John Backus- designed for numeric computation and scientific computing
  • Lisp

    designed by John McCarthy-in an attempt to focus the work of everal implementation groups-LlSt Procesor
  • COBOL

    designed by Howard Bromberg- to create a portable programming language for data processing- Common business-oriented language
  • RPG

    designed by IBM-Report Program Generator
  • LOGO

    designed by wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon-developed to process lists of words-"logo" was derived from the Greek "logos" meaning "thought"
  • B

    designed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie- designed for machine independent applications such as system and language software- B was derived from BCPL which is Basic Combined Programming Language
  • PASCAL

    designed by Nikalus Wirth-intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring
  • C

    designed by Dennis Ritchie- originally intended for writing software system
  • ML

    designed by Robin Milner-
    Meta Language
  • SQL

    esigned by Donald D. Chamberlin-designed for managing data held in a relational database management system or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system. SQL stands for Structured Ouery Language
  • ADA

    originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of Cll Honeywell Bull- originally intended for real-time embedded systems programming- named after ada lovelace who is considered as the first cimputer programmer
  • C++

    developed by Bjarne Stroustrup- designed for high performance software, resource-constrained programming, large scale infrastructure
  • MATH-MATIC

    develop by Wolfram Research
  • Python

    designed by Guido van Rossum-it was to make software be easily portable between operating systems
  • Visual Basic

    designed by microsoft-designed to accommodate a steep learning curve. Programmers can create both simple and complex GUI applications
  • Delphi

    designed by Borland-to develop applications ranging from database solutions to mobile applications and is used on windows as well as linux
  • Java

    designed by James Gosling-designed for use in distributed applications on corporate networks and the internet
  • Javascript

    designed by Brendan Eich-web development-to manipulate the web page elements
  • PHP

    designed by Rasmus Lerdorf-designed to resemble C in structure, making it an easy adoption for develops familiar with C and similar languages-Hypertext preprocessor