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Plankalkul
Plankalkül is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkül means formal system for planning. -
Fortran
Fortran was originally developed by John Backus and IBM for science applications. It stands for Formula Translating System. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957 to use with the UNIVAC computers. It is a marketing name for a AT-3 compiler. -
Lisp
Lisp was developed by John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. It stands for either List Processing or List Programming. -
RPG
RPG is a programming language developed by IBM as a proprietary language. It stands for Report Program Generator. -
COBOL
COBOL was designed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) to be used in business and finance. COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
BASIC
BASIC was invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to enable students outside the computer field to use computers. Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. The name derives from the word logic and the Greek root logos. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications. The name maybe a conratction of BCPL a language B was influnced by. -
Pascal
Pascal was created by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices. It is named for 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
C
Dennis Ritchie invented C at Bell Labs to function as an all-purpose coding language. -
ML
ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner. ML stands for metalanguage. -
SQL
SQL ( Structured Query Language) is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data developed by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission. -
ADA
It was created in 1980 by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. It was created mainly for the use of the Government and Banking Systems with a lot of embedded programs. ADA stands for Ada Lovelace the first modern programmer. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1983 to have the same general purpose features of C but with added on features. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft as an especially easy to use and learn language. -
Python
Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum that emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in other programming languages. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich for the purposes of Web applications and use in web browsers. -
PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stnds for Personal Home Page or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Delphi
Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Java
Java was intially developed by James Gosling and
Sun Microsystems for purposes of web applications.