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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes -
Fortran
It was made for numeric computing
The name comes from FORmula TRANslation
It was origonallydesiged by IBM -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was created by Charles Katz to be an improvement on FORTRAN. -
Lisp
Lisp was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Its main purpose is data calculation and lists
The name comes from LISt Processing -
RPG
RP is primarily used for business aplications
It was developed by IBM
The name is an acronym for Report Program Generator -
COBOL
It was designed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet
COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
Cobol is mainly used for business programmes -
BASIC
First appeared in 1964
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
It was used to be an easy to use programming language. -
LOGO
It was designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Logo was deeloped as an educational programming language
The name comes from the greek word logos meaning thought -
B
A programming language created by Bell Labs with the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
It was named after BCPL (another language)
It was designed for machine indipendent and non-numeric applications. -
PASCAL
It was designed by Niklaus Wirth
It is mainly used for structured programming
Pascal was named for the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal -
C
Delevoped at Bell Labs
It was supposed to be a general purpose programming language
It was named C because its features were build off of the language B -
ML
ML was developed at the university of Edinburgh
It stands for metalanguage
ML is used in financial systems, and genealogical databases -
SQL
SQL is designed for databases and it stands for Structured Query Language
It was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah
ADA was named after ADA lovelace, the first prorammer
It was origionally used to be the one language for communication with the DoD. -
C++
It was supposed to be a better verion os C, which is why it was named C++
It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup -
Delphi
It was designed by Apple computers
It is an extention of pascal -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was created to be a visual impovement upon Basic, where it gets its name
It was designed by Microsoft -
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language and its emphasis was on ease of readability
It was designed by python software
The name comes from the comedy group Monty Python -
Java
Designed by Sun Microsystems
Designed for cross-platform program creation
Its name comes from the coffee -
Javascript
It is a generally web based programming language
It gets its name from trying to get some popularity from the java language
Javascript was developed by Brendan Eich -
PHP
It is a web development and server language developed by the PHP group.