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Plankalkul, or Plan Calculus, was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level programming language.
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MATH-MATIC was developed as an improvement to FORTRAN by Charles Katz in 1957.
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The Formula Translating System, FORTRAN, is a programming langauge designed to handle computations. Its development was lead by John W Backus.
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LISP was devloped by John McCarthy as a Turin-complete algorithm language.
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Report Program Generator was developed by IBM to process punched cards in IBM computers.
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Common Business Oriented Language, or COBOL, was developed by large DoD-headed group, including William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E Sammet. It was written for use in business computer systems.
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Begging All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC, was written by John G Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz in 1964. Its purpose is to allow those not studying math or science to use computer programming.
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LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzig, Daniel G Bobrow, and Seymour Papert as an educational software programming language. It was originally meant to teach the basics of LISP.
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Written by Ken Thompson circa 1969, no more accurate date to be found. It was designed for use in non-numeric system programming.
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PASCAL, named for French mathematician Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth as a languange to increase efficiency in programming.
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C was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973, and published in 1972. It was designed to be used in system programming.
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Metalanguage, or ML, was developed by Robin Milner to prove computational theorems.
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Structured Query Language was developed by Donald C Chamberlin and Raymond F Boyce to process and manage memory.
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Designed by Jean Ichbiah and named after Ada Lovelace. It was designed as a standard language, which was rare at the time.
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C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup between 1979 and 1983. Its primary purpose is for system programming.
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Guido van Rossum developed Python, a scripting language mostly used in web applications.
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Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft as easy to use and understand programming software. Alan Cooper designed its drag-and-drop interface.
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Delphi, referencing a Greek myth, was developed by Anders Hejlsberg as a software development tool.
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Java was designed to let programmers write codes that could be used on any system. It was developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton.
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Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, is a language developed for web design that was written by Rasmus Lerdorf.
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Javascript is a programming language designed for use in webpages. It was developed by Brendan Eich.