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Plankalkul
The name means formal system for planning. Developed by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level non-von Neumann language designed for use in a computer. -
Fortran
Named after Formula Translating System. Developed by John Backus. Used for numeric and scientific computing. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Charles Kats. It was used as an early programming language for UNIVAC. -
Lisp
Named from LISt Processing. Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Used for Artificial Intelligence. -
COBOL
(COmmon Business-Oriented Language) Developed by Grace Hopper. Used for buisness applications. -
RPG
(Report Program Generator) Developed by IBM. It is widely used on the IBM Power i platform. -
BASIC
(Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Used for hign level programming and ease of use. -
LOGO
Its name was derived from the greek word logos. It was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is used in Turtle Graphics. -
B
Developed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. Used for non-numerical applications. -
PASCAL
It was named for 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal. Developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was originally designed for the CDC 6000 series mainframe computer family. It is now used for teaching students the basics of programming. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Named C becuase it was derived from B. Used to write operating systems. -
ML
Developed by Robert Milner. It was originally created to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. Nowadays, it is mostly used for language design and manipulation. -
SQL
(Structured Query Language) Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Its primary use is managing data held in a relational database management system. -
ADA
Named after Ada Lovelace. Developed by Jean Ichbiah. Used for large, long-lived applications. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Originally named C with Classes. Used for applications, music players and videogames. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland. Created for use as a rapid application development tool for Windows. -
Python
It is named after Monty Python. Developed by Guido van Rossum. It is aminly used as a scripting language. -
Visual Basic
It was named after BASIC. Developed by Microsoft. It is used to create applications and games. -
Java
Named after Java coffee. Developed by Oracle Corporation. Used in server client web applications. -
Javascript
Named after Java. Developed by Brendan Eich. Used to enable programmatic access to computational objects in web browsers. -
PHP
PHP is a recursive acronym. It was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is widely used for web development, but is also used for general purpose programming.