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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse designed Plankalkul (Plan Calculus) for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Fortran (derived from Formula Translating System) was created by John Backus at IBM for scientific and engineering applications. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by a group led by Charles Katz, it was an improvement over FORTRAN. -
Lisp
The name LISP derives from "LISt Processing," and was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs by John McCarthy. -
COBOL
Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney designed COBOL (common business-oriented language) for mainly business purposes. -
RPG
RPG (Report Program Generator) was created by IBM for punched card machines. -
BASIC
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed BASIC so non-programmers would have an easy language to learn to program in. -
LOGO
Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon to teach concepts of programming. Logo was derived from the Greek logos meaning word. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for machine independent applications. B could be derived from another language BCPL. -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth developed it to teach students structured programming and named it in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
Dennis Ritchie created C to re-implement the Unix operating system. -
ML
ML stands for metalanguage and was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover by Robin Milner. -
ADA
Made by Jean Ichbiah for the UK Department of Defence. It was named for Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup enhanced the C language. -
SQL
SQL (Structured Query Language, initially called SEQUEL) was made by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's database management system. -
Python
Guido van Rossum creted Python as a side project and named it after Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
It was developed by Microsoft to make apps in a relatively easy format. -
Delphi
Delphi (a reference to the Oracle at Delphi) was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Java
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems specifically designed Java (from Java coffee) to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich for Netscape, which wanted a lightweight interpreted language that would complement Java. -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf created PHP (Personal Home Page) to accelerate bug location and improve the code of pages.