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Konrad Zuse, designed for math; fun fact: Kalkül means Calculus in German
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ohn Backus, FORmula TRANslating System, designed for math and science computing
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Grace Hopper, used for UNIVAC 1 and 2
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John McCarthy, used originally for math operations
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Grace Hopper, COmmon Business-Oriented Language, used in business, finances, etc
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IBM, designed to replicate the punched card system
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John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, designed to allow for use of computers by those not in math/sciences
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Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, meant to be logically oriented
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Ken Thompson, designed to fit within memory capacity of new microcomputers
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Niklaus Wirth, small and efficient
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Dennis Ritchie, efficiently communicate to machine instructions
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Robin Milner, designed to prove calculus theorems
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Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce, designed for calculation and manipulation of mathematics
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Jean Ichbiah, Tucker Taft, designed for simultaneous operations
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Bjarne Stroutstrup, hybridizes high- and low-level languages
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Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg, used in early Mac computers
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Guido van Rossum, efficiency, readability
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Microsoft, designed to be easily learned and used
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Rasmus Lerdorf, Personal Home Page, general server-side language
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James Gosling, designed to run on any system without implementation dependencies
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Brendan Eich, used for web browsers