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Plankalkul
Developers - Konrad Zuse Purpose - Designed for engineering purposes Name - Plan Calculus -
Fortran
Developer - John W. Backus Purpose - Scientific computing, high performance, focuses on numberic values Name - Formula Translating -
MATH-MATIC
Developers - Charles Katz Purpose - Early language, an improvement of Fortran Name - Merged MATH with FLOW-MATIC -
Delphi
Developer - Anders Hejlsberg Purpose - Desktop/Mobile graphical and web applications Name - Was a code name for a project at Borland -
COBOL
Developers - The CODASYL Committee Purpose - One of the oldest languages, used for business domains and systems. Name - COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
Lisp
Developer - John McCarthy Purpose - Artifical intelligence, 2nd oldest high-level programming language Name - From LISt Processing -
BASIC
Developers - Kemeny, Kurtz Purpose - To create a user-friendly language so people other than math/science majors could ultalize computers Name - Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
RPG
Developers - IBM Purpose - High level programming for business Name - Report Program Generator -
LOGO
Developers - Papert Purpose - Educational language, focuses on graphics Name - Orgin of the greek word "logos" which means word -
B - language
Developers - Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie Purpose - A language made to fit into microcomputers of the time. Name - Based off of BCPL -
PASCAL
Developers - Wirth, Jensen Purpose - Efficient language, small but very structured Name - Named in honor of a French mathmatician Blaise Pascal -
C
Developer - Dennis Ritchie Purpose - Most used programming language ever. Used for system programming, needs very little run-time support. Name - Influcenced by B majorly. -
SQL
Developers - IBM Purpose - Special purpose language, manages language Name - Structured Query Language -
ML
Developers - Robin Milner Purpose - General purpose, used to find proof for equations Name - ML stands for metalanguage -
ADA - language
Developer - Dr. Jean Ichbiah Purpose - Used for systems, high effcient, had the ability to work out it's own run-time errors, so was a good choice for applications with a long life span. Name - ADA refers to Ada Lovelace, who was considered the first programmer -
C++
Developer - Stroustrup Purpose - General. For both High level and Low level programmers. Name - Based off of C, with many object oriented features. -
Python
Developers - Van Rossum Purpose - Widely used, general purpose, yet High level programming language. Allows code to be typed efficiently Name - Named from "Monty Python" -
Visual Basic
Developers - Alan Cooper Purpose - Event driven programming language Name - Easy to use -
Java
Developer - James Gosling Purpose - General purpose, class-based, made to be independant. Name - Was choosen from a long list of ideas, no acyronm. -
PHP
Developers - Rasmus Lerdorf Purpose - Server Side language meant for web development Name - Personal Home Page, now named PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor -
Javascript
Developer - Brendan Eich Purpose - Creates Cilentside scripts for web browsers. Name - At first was called Livescript, changed to java afterwards.