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Plankalkül
Plankalkül was designed by Knorad Zuse. It was designed for engineering purposes and it stands for Plan Calculus. -
Fortan
Fortran or Formula Translating System was developed by John Backus for numeric and scientific computation. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was designed by Charles Katz as an improvement over Fortran -
Lisp
Lisp stands for LISt Processor and was designed by John McCarthy, and developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin for mathematical notation. -
COBOL
COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper for business use. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM for business applications. Its name stands for Report Prgram Generator. -
BASIC
The Begginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, otherwise known as BASIC. BASIC was designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugen Kurtz so that students other than those in math and science could use computers -
Logo
Logo was designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon for educational purposes. Logo is not an acronym. -
B
B's name is unknown and was designed and developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for machine independent applications. -
Pascal
Pascal was designed by Niklaus Wirth for object-oriented programming. It was named after Blaise Pascal. -
C
C was designed by Dennis Ritchie for to reimplement the unix operating system. Its name was solely chosen to come after B in alphabetical order. -
ML
ML stands for metalanguage. It is a general purpose programming language developed by Robin Milner. -
SQL
SQL was desingned to help manage data in a relational database management system. SQL was desinged by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Ada was named after Ada lovelace. Ada was designed by Jean Ichbiah for the DoD to surpass the other languages used by the DoD. -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup for system programming, and has also been found useful for desktop applications. -
Python
Python was created by Guido van Rossom. Python was designed for code readability and code compression. Python gets its name from Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
Visual basic was developed by Microsoft. Visual basic was designed to be easy to learn and use. -
Delphi
Delphi was designed by Borland for console, web, mobile, and desktop graphical applications. Delphi gets its name from the Oracle at Delphi. -
Java
Java was designed so that developers could write their code once and then have it run on any java supported application without recompilation. Java was designed by James Gosling. Java was named java after Java Coffee. -
PHP
PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development and general purpose programming. PHP stands for hypertext preprocessor. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was given its name after Netscape began to support Java in its web browser. JavaScript was designed Brendan Eich as an interpreted language which would complement Java by appealing to other nonprofessional programmers.