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Plankalkül
Developed by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkül is made for engineering. Plankalkül is German for 'Plan Calculus'. -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus. Fortran is made for science and engineering. Fortran is a contraction of 'Formula Translation'. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remington Rand and Charles Katz. MATH-MATIC was an early maths program. An alternate name for MATH-MATIC is AT-3 or 'Algebraic Translator 3'. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy and Steve Russell. Lisp was originally used for mathematics. Lisp stands for 'LISt Processor'. -
COBOL
Designed by CODASYL (Committee on Data Systems Languages). COBOL is used for business and finance systems. COBOL stands for 'common business-oriented language'. -
RPG
Developed by IBM. RPG is used for business applications. RPG stands of Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC allowed small businessmen to be able to develop their own custom software. BASIC is an acronym of 'Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. LOGO was popular for drawing graphics. LOGO is derived from logos the Greek word for thought. -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was used for language and system software. B may be a contraction for BPCL, however it is unconfirmed. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal was mainly developed to help people into good programming habits of structuring their data. Pascal is named after Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie. C is a program that supports other programs. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner. ML is made to ensure safety of programs. ML stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL is designed to manage data. SQL stands for 'Structured Query Language'. -
ADA
Developed by Jean Ichbiah. ADA is designed to replace DoD. Ada is named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is an updated program version of C. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum. Python runs about the same things as Java and C++, just in less lines of code. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft. Visual Basic is designed for easy use to create applications. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland. Delphi was developed for Microsoft Windows. It is named after the Oracle of Delphi from Greek Mythology. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP is made for web development. PHP used to be an acronym for ' Personal Home Page', but now it's an acronym for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor'. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling. Java is a basic language made to run on all platforms with little to no issues. Java is named for Java Coffee -
JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich. JavaScript is used as the framework for most websites as well as PDFs, browsers, and more.