Programming Languages

By Jordan_Gray

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul (Plain Calculus) was created by Conrad Zuse for engineering purposes.

  • Lisp

    John McCarthy created Lisp to make a list processing language for artificial intelligence.

  • Fortran

    Fortran (Formulated Translation) was created by Joh Backus and the IBM team for an easy translation of math formulas into code.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was devoloped by Charles Katz to replace FORTRAN because it was and improved FORTRAN.

  • COBOL

    COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was created by the Conference on Data Systems Language for the intent to be able to run on more than one manufacturers computers.

  • RPG

    RPG was created by IBM for the purpose of an easy transition from the tabulating machines to the new computers.

  • BASIC

    BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created by Tom Kurtzas and John Kemeny to be used as a teaching tool.

  • LOGO

    A MIT team created LOGO to be able to present and show children computer programming.

  • B

    B was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.

  • SQL

    SQL (Structured Query Language) was created by Donald Chamberland for retrieving and manipulating IBM data, which he worked for.

  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth created PASCAL as a teaching language.

  • C

    Dennis Ritchie created C to write systems software.

  • ML

    Created by Robin Milner for general-purpose functionality.

  • C++

    C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. His initial intent was to add object oriented programming into the C language.

  • ADA

    Dr. John-Ichbiah and his team created this lagnuage to be a standard language for weapons systems.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was created by Microsoft for graphical user interface.

  • Python

    Python was created by Guido Van Rossum for a speed upgrade from an earler version, ABC.

  • Java

    Java was created by James Gosling to be run in bytecode, rather than machine code.

  • PHP

    PHP (personal home page) was created by Rasmus Lerdorf to track the amount of online visits to his resume.

  • Delphi

    Delphi was created by Hejlsburg at Borland, to convert PASCAL into a more object oriented language.

  • Javascript

    Javascript was created by Brendan Eich as a lightweight programming language anyone could use to compliment java.