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Plankalkül
Designed by: Konrad Zuse
Name: Plan Calculus
Purpose:Engineering purposes -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by: Charles Katz
Name: none
Purpose: English-language business data processing compiler -
Fortran
Designed by:John Backus
Name: Formula Translating System
Purpose: general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing -
Lisp
Designed by:Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Name: List Processing
Purpose: A practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
COBOL
Designed by: Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
Name: Common Business-Oriented Language.
Purpose:Used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments -
RPG
Designed by: IBM
Name: Report Program Generator
Purpose:High-level programming language for business applications -
BASIC
Designed by: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Name: Basic means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Purpose: To enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. -
Logo
Designed by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Name:Derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought"
Purpose: Conceived to teach concepts of programming related to LISP -
B
Designed by:Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Name: B for BCPL which means Basic Combined Programming Language
Purpose: recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications such as system and language software. -
Pascal
Designed by: Niklaus Wirth
Name: Named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal
Purpose: A small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
Designed by:Dennis Ritchie
Name: None
Purpose: Used for system programming including implementing operating systems and embedded system applications -
ML
Designed by: Robin Milner
Name: Metalanguage
Purpose Develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover -
SQL
Designed by: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
Name: Structured Query Language
Purpose: Special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system -
ADA
Designed by: Jean Ichbiah
ADA in reference to Ada Lovelace
Primary Purpose: Supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD -
C++
Designed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Name:none
Purpose: Desgined for systems programming -
Visual Basic
Designed by: Microsoft
Name: none
Purpose: Rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. -
Python
Designed by:Guido van Rossum
Name: none
Purpose: General-purpose, high-level programming language -
Delphi
Designed by: Anders Hejlsberg
Name: Code name for the project origanal
Purpose: integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications -
Java
Designed by: James Gosling and
Sun Microsystems
Name: None
Purpose:To have as few implementation dependencies as possible. "Write Once, Run Anywhere" -
JavaScript
Designed by: Brendan Eich
Name: None
Purpose:Allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed. -
PHP
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Name: Personal Home Page
Purpose:Web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language