Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    *Translates to "Formal System of Planning"
    *Desgined by Konrad Zuse
    *Desgined for engineering purposes
  • MATH-MATIC

    *Desgined as a improvment over FORTRAN
    *Developed by a team led by Charles Katz
  • Fortran

    *Desgined to be a more practical alternative to assembly language
    *Derived fromrmula Translating System"
    *Development team led by John Backus
  • Lisp

    *Created as a practical mathmatical notion for computers
    *Developed by Steve Russel, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin
  • COBOL

    *Is an acronym for "Common Buisness-Oriented Language"
    *Desgined by the Confrence on Data System Languages
    *Desgined to by commonly used by buisnesses
  • RPG

    *Stands for "Report Program Generator"
    *Developed by IBM
    *Desgined to generate reports from data files
  • BASIC

    *Is an acronym for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
    *Desgined by John Kemedy and Thomas Kurtz
    *Desgined to be learned more easily so anyone could use it
  • LOGO

    *Desgined to teach programming related to LISP
    *Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
  • B

    *Made By Ken Thompsonn and Dennis Ritchie
    *Desgined for Recursive, Non-Numeric, Machine-Independent Programs.
    *Derrived from BCPL
  • PASCAL

    *Desgined to encourage good programming practices
    *Desgined by Nikalus Wirith
  • C

    *Made because B couldn't make use of all of the PDP-11's features
    *Originally developed by Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    *Desgined to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorm prover
    *Desgined by Robin Milner
  • SQL

    *Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
    *Originally going to be called SEQUEL (an acronym for "Structured English Query Language") but was changed to "SQL" for copywright reasons
    *Desgined to manipulate and retreive data from IBM's database
  • First Valid ADA implmentation

    *Desgined to meet the UK Ministry of Defense Requirements
    *Named in honor of Ada Lovelace
  • C++

    *Desgined to be C enchanced with Simula-like features
    *Desgined by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Python

    *Desgined to by a descenant of ABC that would appeal to Unix/C hackers
    *Named after Monty Python's Flying Circuis
    *Developed by Guido van Rossum
    *Started as a "hobby" programming project
  • Visual Basic

    *Desgined to be easy to learn and use
    *Developed by Microsoft
    *Derived from Basic
  • Delphi

    *Desgined to be a rapid application development tool
    *Desgined by Anders Hejlsberg
    *Name refrences the Oracle of Delphi
  • Java

    *Desgined to let developers "write once, run anywhere"
    *Named after the "Java" coffee
    *Developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
  • PHP

    *Developed by the PHP group
    *Desgined for both web development and general use programming
  • JavaScript

    *Desgined to be appealing to non-professional programmers
    *Desgined by Brendan Eich
    *Not related to Java