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Plankalkul
Inventor: Konrad Ruse
Primary Use: engineering pursoping -
Fortran (FORmula TRANslator)
Inventor: John Backus
Primary Use: general purpose (numeric computation and scientific computing) -
MATH-MATIC
Inventor: Charles Katz and Grace Hopper
Primary Use: improvement over FORTRAN -
Lisp (LISt Processor)
Inventor: John McCarthy
Primary Use - artificial intelligence projects -
COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language)
Inventor: Grace Hopper
Primary Use: business, finance, and administration systems -
RPG (Report Programming Generator)
Inventor: IBM
Primary Use: a tool to replicate punching card processing -
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
Inventor: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Primary Use: general-purpose -
LOGO
Inventor: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Primary Use: functional programming -
B
Inventor: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Primary Use: system programming (non-numeric applications) -
PASCAL (Programme d'Aide aux Sciences et aux Langues (French: Assistance Program for Science and Languages))
Inventor: Niklaus Wirth
Primary Use: teaching programming -
C
Inventor: Dennis Ritchie
Primary Use: cross-platform programming, system programming, Unix programming, computer game developement -
ML (MetaLanguage)
Inventor: Robin Milner
Primary Use: general use -
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Inventor: Donald D. Chamberlin
Primary Use: managing data held in a relational database management system -
ADA
Inventor: Dr. Jean Ichbiah
Primary Use: large, long-lived applications -
C++
Inventor: Bjarne Stroustrup
Primary Use: commercial application development, embedded software, server/client applications, video games -
Python
Inventor: Guido Van Rossum
Primary Use: web applications, software development, information security -
Visual Basic
Inventor: Microsoft
Primary Use: creating programs for windows -
Java
Inventor: James Gosling
Primary Use: network programming, web application development, software development, graphical user interface development -
Javascript
Inventor: Brenda Eich
Primary Use: dynamic web developments, PDF documents, web browsers, desktop widgets -
Delphi
Inventor: Borland
Primary Use: Microsoft Windows applications -
PHP (Personal Home Page or Hypertext Pre-Processor
Inventor: Rasmus Lerdorf
Primary Use: web developement