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MATHE-MATIC
Designed by: Charles Katz
Meaning: marketing name for AT-3 compiler
intended to be an improvement of FORTRAN -
FORTRAN
Designed by:John Backus
Meaning: Formula Translator
originally developed for scientific engineering applications -
Cobol
Designed by: Grace Hopper
Meaning: Common Business Oriented Language
used originally for busiess, finance, and administrative systems -
BASIC
Designed by: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Meaning: Beginners All-purpose Security Information Concil
designed to be easy to use -
LOGO
Designed by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Meaning: unknown
designed for education -
PASCAL
Designed by: Niklaus Wirth
Meaning: named for 17th century mathematician
intended to encourage good programming practices using structured and data structuring programming -
C
Designed by: Dennis Ritchie
Meaning: better version of BCLP
was designed for implementing software -
SQL
Designed by: IBM
Meaning: Structured Query Language
designed for managing data in relational database management systems -
ADA
Designed by: Jean Ichbiah
Named for: Ada Lovelace
The primary purpose was to be reliable when it came to in-mission critical applicatios -
C++
Designed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Meaning: Combined
originally an enhancement to the C language -
VISUAL BASIC
Designed by: Microsoft
Meaning: unknown
the components to make a program were provided thus making this easy to use -
JAVA
Designed by: Sun Microsystems
Meaning: not an acronym
designed to have as few implemation tendanciees as possible