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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse, used for engineering purposes -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus, used for numeric and scientific computation and as an assembly language, stands for FORmula TRANslating System -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by a group led by Charles Katz, used as a computing language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II -
LISP
Developed by John McCarthy, used for mathematical and programming purposes, stands for LISt Processing -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper, used as a general business/finance language, stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
Developed by IBM, used for business, stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, used for student education, stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Pappert, used for education and math and relied on graphics. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson, used for programming computers. -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth, used for encouraging programming practices using data structures, named after mathematician Blaise Pascal -
C
Developed by Dennis Rtchie, used very commonly today for mapping programming instructions -
SQL
Developed by IBM, used for managing data by using a database, stands for Structured Query Language -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner, used to to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover, stands for MetaLanguage -
Ada
Developed by Jean Ichbiah, used for the United State Department of Defense so they would have a high level legal language system, named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, used for programming software based on C -
Python
Developed by Van Rossum, used for fewer lines of code -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, used for rapid application development -
Delphi
Developed by Borland Pascal, used to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database -
Java
Developed by James Gosling, used for multi-platform use -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich, used in web pages for user interaction and webpage alteration -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, used for web development, formerly stood for Personal HomePage, now stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor