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FORTRAN
Developed by IBM at their campus in 1957, but first appeared on October in 1956. Fortran is a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System. It was first designed for scientific and engineering applications by John Backus.
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MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz in 1957 intended as an improvement over FORTRAN.
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COBOL
Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. The COBOL specification was created by a committee of researchers from private industry, universities, and government during 1959. Its primary domain is in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
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BASIC
The name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Provided computer access to non-science students.
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LOGO
Logo was created in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Logo was created for constructivist teaching. The name is derived from the Greek logos meaning word since other languages used numbers at the time.
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Pascal
Pascal was designed in 1968/1969 and published in 1970.
Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
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SQL
SQL was made in 1974. SQL was one of the first commercial languages for Edgar F. Codd's relational model. SQL is a database computer language designed for managing data. It was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
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C++
It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language.
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ADA
ADA first appeared in 1980 and was designed by Jean Ichbiah, CII Honeywell Bull, and then Tucker Taft in later years. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, who is sometimes credited as being the first computer programmer. It was intended to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD.
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Visual Basic
Visual Basic is designed to be relatively easy to learn and use. Visual Basic 1.0 (May 1991) was released for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in Atlanta, Georgia. Visual Basic was made by Microsoft.
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Java
Java was made in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform and originally developed by James Gosling. The first Java release was on January 23rd, 1996.
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