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Konrad Zuse, for engineering, first language designed for a computer, Plan Calculus named for
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for the Univac I and II, Remington Rand, early language
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John McCarthey, long history, weird notation, younger than Fortran by a year
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by IBM, for business applications, Report Program Generator
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John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, designed for ease-of-use, released at Dartmouth, Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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educational language, Cynthia Soloman, derives from the Greek Logos, word or thought
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Ken Thompson, for mini-computers, the name derived from BCPL
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Niklaus Wirth, programming and data structuring, named for Blaise Pascal, supports good programming practices
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Jean Ichbiah, S. Tucker Taft, object-oriented, high-level, named after Ada Lovelace
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Structured Query Language, ISO, domain-specific language.
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Guido Van Rossum, for code-readability, general purpose
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Microsoft, ease-of-use intended for creation, hence name Visual Basic
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Rasmus Lerdorf, originally for web development, general purpose
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first in 1995, Brendan Eich, high-level, multi-paradigm
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Meta-Language, has roots in Lisp, Robin Milner, general purpose
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Anders Hejlsberg, event-driven programming language based on object pascal
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used for business, finance, and administrative systems, English-like programming system, Common Business Oriented Language
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C++17 in 2017, Bjarne Stroustrup, general purpose programming language
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C18 released in 2018, Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs, supports structured programming
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Fortran 2018, John Backus, IBM, numerical computation and scientific programming, general-purpose
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java 12 in 2019, James Gosling, general-purpose programming language, class based, object-oriented