Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    It was the first "modern" language was Plankalkul which was described in 1943, but not implemented until 1998. It was designed by Konrad Zuse. It was designed for engineering purposes. Plankalkul means "formal system for planning".
  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. FORTRAN was designed by John Backus. FORTRAN is an abbreviation for "formula translator".
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the programming language for the UNIVAC I and the UNIVAC II. MATH-MATIC was designed by Charles Katz.
  • LISP

    LISP was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. LISP was designed by John McCarthy. LISP means "list processor".
  • COBOL

    COBOL was created for the US Department of Defence to create a portable programming language for data processing. COBOL was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, Willian Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. COBOL means "Common Business-Oriented Language".
  • RPG

    RPG is a proprietary programming language developed by IBM. RPG stands for "report program generator".
  • BASIC

    BASIC was designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. BASIC is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design emphasizes ease of use. BASIC stands for "beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code".
  • LOGO

    LOGO is and educational programming language. LOGO was designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL is an imperative and procedural programming language. PASCAL was an (OOP) language. PASCAL was designed by Niklaus Wirth. PASCAL is named after the mathematictian Blaise Pascal.
  • B

    B was developd by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
  • C

    C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, that supports structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion. C was designed by Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs.
  • ML

    ML is a general-purpose functional programming language designed by Robert Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. ML stands for "Meta Language".
  • SQL

    SQL is a special-purpose programming languages designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing. SQL was designed my Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL stands for "structured query language".
  • ADA

    ADA is a strucured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum and (OOP) language. ADA was designed by Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States DoD. ADA was named after Ada Lovelace.
  • C++

    C++ was designed by Bjarne Strousturp. C++ is a general-purpose programming language,
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is an event driven and object-oriented programming language. Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. Visual Basic.
  • PYTHON

    PYTHON is a widely used general-purpose programming language designed to emphasize code readability. PYTHON was designed by Guido Van Rossum
  • Delphi

    Delphi is an integrated development environment for console, desktop graphical, web and mobile applications. Delphi was developed by Embarcadero Technologies.
  • Java

    Java was designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Java is a general-purpose programming languages that is concurrent, class-based, and object-oriented.
  • Javascript

    Javascript is a high level, dynamic, untyped and interpreted programming language. Javascript was designed by Brenden Eich.
  • PHP

    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development, but is also a general-purpose programming language. PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for "personal home page".