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Plankalkul
Literally means "Plan Calculus"
Developed by Konrad Zuse as aid for engineering purposes -
Fortran
FORmula TRANslating System
Developed by John Backus with IBM to prrogram scientific and mathematic apps -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by a group led by Charles Katz
It was a series of improvements made to Fortran -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
COBOL
COmmon Business-Oriented Language
Developed by Grace Hopper to write programs for businesses -
RPG
Created by IBM to help with ease of transition for IBM technicians -
BASIC
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolis Instruction code
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to make it easier for students of different fields of study to use computers -
LOGO
Designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon to teach conceppts of programming related to Lisp -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to fit the memory capacity of minicomputers at the time -
C
Developed by Dennis RItchie to efficiently map the machine's instructions while requiring minimal runtime -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming habits -
ML
Metalanguage
Designed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in LCF theorem prover -
SQL
Structured Query Language
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin, Donald C. Messerly, and Raymond F. Boyce to manipulate and retrieve information stored in IBM's original database management system -
ADA
Developed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah under the U.S. Dept. of Defense
Written to take the place of hundreds of other programming languages used by the Dept. of Defense -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
It was basically just numerous enhancements added to C -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum to work faster and more efficiently -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft to help beginner programmers -
Delphi
Developed by Borland to extend the Borland Pascal language -
Java
Developed by James Gosling so that a programmer could write a code once, and it could be run on multiple platforms -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich so that nonprofessional programmers could code easily -
PHP
Originally stood for Personal Home Page and was later changed to mean PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Developed by Rasmus Lerdof to assist programmers with web development