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Plankalkul is an engineering program. Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkul is also known as "Plan Calculus"
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Fortran came from "Formula Translation." Was originally developed by IBM. It is a general purpose program made for numeric computation and scientific computing
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MATH-MATIC was developed by Charles Katz. Was created for the use of the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
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Lisp was developed by John McCarthy. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. The name LISP came from "LISt Processor".
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COBOL is an acronym for common business-oriented language. It is a computer programming language designed mainly for business use.
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RPG is a high level program made for business applications. Created by IBM. RPG stands for "Report Program Generator."
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BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC made made to be easy to use.
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LOGO was created to be an educational programming language. It was designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. LOGO came from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" by Feurzeig.
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B is a computer language designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson, mainly for non-numeric applications. The name B came from BCPL.
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Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language. It was developed by Niklaus Wirth. PASCAL was named after Blaise Pascal.
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C was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It is a general purpose program made to perform many different tasks.
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ML "Meta Language" ML is a general-purpose functional programming language. It was developed by Robin Milner.
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SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL was designed for managing data. SQL was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
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ADA was named from Augusta Ada King who is sometimes claimed to be the first computer programmer. ADA was developed in the 1980's for the U.S. Department of Defense for programming.
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C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It can be used to create small programs or large applications.
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Python was created by Guido van Rossum. It is high level programming language and also a general purpose language.
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Visual Basic was derived from BASIC, a user-friendly programming language designed for beginners. It allows users to rapidly develop apps that use GUI
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PHP was primarily a web development language but also used as a general purpose language. PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor."
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James Gosling was the inventor of Java. Java was created to "Write once, run anywhere." The program was originally named Green until later renamed to Java after Java Coffee.
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Javascript was developed by Netscape. JavaScript was designed to run in Netscape Navigator.
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Delphi is a sort of spin off of Pascal, also known as Object Pascal. It was developed by Borland. It was made to generate native code for many platforms.