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ADA
appeared in 1980, designed by Jean Ichbiah & Tucker Taft, it improved support for systems, numerical, financial, and object-oriented programming. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. -
BASIC
1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed it, wanted to enable students in other fields than science and math to use computers. -
C
(Computing) , developed by Dennis Ritchie 1969-1979, allows lexical variable scope and recursion -
C++
1983, Bjarne Stroustrup, most popular, operating system platforms,in video games software -
COBOL
1959, oldest, designed by Grace Hopper, name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, business, fiance. -
Delphi
1986, designed by Apple, Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg. object pascal, to support macapp -
Fortran
1957, (formula translating system), designed by John Backus, used mostly by IBM, used for programs that ranked fastest supercomputers. -
JAVA
1995, let application developers write once write everywhere, Josh Gosling and Sun Microsystems -
JavaScript
used for part of web browers, 1995, control the browser, designed by Brenden Eich, enables access -
Lisp
1958, John McCarthy, second oldest, originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
Logo
1967, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, movement of drawing on screen or robot called turtle -
ML
Robin Milner, 1973, ML stands for metalanguage, can automatically infer the types of most expressions without requiring explicit type annotations -
Plankalkül
designed for engineering purposes, 1948, Konrad Zuse, kalkil means formal system -
Python
1991, Guido van Rossum, its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code, community developed model -
RPG
1959, IBM, only on IBM based systems, a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401 -
visual basic
1991, microsoft, easy to learn and use, can creat an application using componets -
B
developed at bells labs, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, first appeared in 1969, possible named after Bon an earlier program Ken T. created