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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Engineering
Stands: Calculus for computing plans -
Fortran
John Backus / IBM
Purpose: General numeric computation
Stands: Formula Translation -
MATH-MATIC
Remington Rand
Purpose: Larger programs
Stand: none -
Lisp
John McCarthy / Steve Russell
Purpose: Easy manipulation of data strings
Stand: List processing -
COBOL
CODASYL / Grace Hopper
Purpose: portability and readability
Stand: Common business-oriented language -
Delphi
Borland
Embarcadero Technologies
Purpose: High level programming
Stand: none -
BASIC
John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: High level language to access simpler more data and actions
Stand: Beginning All-purpose Instruction Code -
RPG
IBM
Purpose: High level programming language used by business
Stand: Report Program Generator -
LOGO
Seymour Papert / Idit Harel Caperton / Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: General Turtle Graphics
Stand:none -
B
Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: recursive non numeric machine-independent applications
Stand: (B)CPL -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: good programming practices
Stand: High leveled structured programming language -
C
Dennis Ritchie Bell Labs
Purpose: to provide low leveled access to memory and language
Stand: earlier language was b -
ML
Robin Milner
Purpose: functions garbage collection imperative programming
Stand: Machine Learning -
SQL
Donald D. Chamberlain / Raymond F. Boyce / International Organization for Standardization
Purpose: organization of data bases
Stand: Structured query language -
ADA
Jean Ichbiah, S. Tucker Taft
Purpose: General programming
Stand: Ada Lovelace name after -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: General procedural object oriented and funtional
Stand: C with classes -
Python
Guido van Rossum / Python Software Foundation
Purpose: General purpose logical code to help programmers
Stand: Monty Python -
Visual Basic
Microsoft
Purpose: gives graphical user interface and manually write code
Stand: none -
Java
James Gosling / Sun Microsystems
Purpose: Internet based applications General
Stand: none -
Javascript
Brendan Eich
Purpose: object oriented programming helps web development
Stand: none -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf
Andi Gutmans
PHP Group
Zend Technologies
Zeev Suraski
Purpose: open-sourced scripting language
Stand: Hypertext Preprocessor