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B
-Designed by Ken Thomson and Dennis Richie
-"...its name may be a contraction of BCPL."-Wikipedia
-Almost never used (outdated by C)
-"B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software."-Also Wikipedia -
BASIC
-Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
-Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
-DEVELOPED '75, designed in '64
-Created for non-math/science oriented people to learn (easy?) -
ADA
-Named after Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace
-Extended from Pascal and other languages
-Structured programming language
-"Ada is a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications – and embedded systems in particular – where safety and security are essential...it was ahead of its time... had ambitious requirements and introduced many features - e.g., packages, exceptions, generics, tasking - that were not used in mainstream languages of the early 1980s."~Adaic.org