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Plankalkül
-Made by Konrad Zuse
-created for engineering
-translates to Plan Calculus in German -
Fortran
-Created by John Backus and IBM
-Developed for scientific and engineering applications
-Still used to today in high-performace computing -
MATH-MATIC
-Created by Charles Katz
-Intended to improve FORTRAN -
Lisp
-Made by John McCarthy, Steve Russel, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
-Named from LISt Processing
-Lisp was the first homoiconic programming language; Lisp functions can be manipulated, altered or even created within a Lisp program without extensive parsing or manipulation of binary machine code -
COBOL
-Created by Grace Hopper
-Made for large business, finance and administrative systems
-Acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
IBM RPG
-Made by IBM
-Stands for Report Program Generator
-USed for Business application
-Used back with punched card machines and still used today -
BASIC
-Stands for: Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
-Created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
-BASIC was made to allow students to write programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System -
Logo
-Created by Wally feurzeig and Seymour Papert
maemana
-The name is derived from the Greek logos meaning word
-Created to help people learn Lisp but has been surassed by Scheme -
B
-Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs
-Was made as a simplified BCPL that could fir the memory capacity of minicomputers of that time -
Pascal
-Created by Niklaus Wirth
-Named in honor of Blaise Pascal
-Small and efficient to encourage better structuring of the written programs -
C
-Designed by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs
-used for actual system programming, like coding operating systems and embedded system applications
-Portable and efficient -
ML
-Made by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh
-Stands for "metalanguage"
-was made to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover -
SQL
-Made by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
-Stands for Structured Query Language
-designed for managing data in "relational database management systems" -
Ada
-Created by Jean Ichbiah and her team
-designed for developing large software systems and to reduce the number of programing langauges the US department of Defense needed -
C++
-Created by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs
-One of the most popular and versitile language
-Called C++ because it is based in C with new enhancements (hence the ++) -
Python
-Made by Guido van Rossum with the Python Software Foundation
-created to provide a clear, expressive and easily readable code. -
Visual Basic
-Made by Microsoft
-Created to be easier to learn and use allowing "rapid application development" and graphical user interface applications
-Derived from BASIC -
JavaScript
-Made by Bredan Eich
-Created and used to program and create websites -
Delphi
-Created by Borland
-Made to allow quicker application development for Windows -
Java
-Made by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems
-It was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible, so it could easily be run on many machines -
PHP
-Made by Rasmus Lerdorf
-stands for either: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, or Personal Home Page
-Created to easily program dynamic web pages