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Plankalkul
it was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was created to be used in engineering. It is not an acronym. -
Fortran
It was developed by a group of programmers at IBM with the leader John Backus. It was created to make turning mathematical formulas into code easier. It is short for “Formula Translation.” -
MATH-MATIC
It was developed by a group being led by Charles Katz and directed by Grace Hopper. It was created to be like the data processing language FLOW-MATIC, but give “algebraic-style expressions,” “floating-point arithmetic,” and arrays instead of record structures. It is not an acronym. -
Lisp
It was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. The University of Michigan states that it was created to “develop a list processing language for Artificial Intelligence.” It is not an acronym. -
COBOL
It was developed by the group of computer professionals, “Conference on Data Systems Languages.” It was created for the US Department of Defense to make a programming language to be used for data processing that was portable. It is an acronym for “Common Business Oriented Language.” -
BASIC
It was developed by John G. Kemeney and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was created for educational purposes. It is an acronym for “Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.” -
RPG
It was developed by a team at IBM. It was created for business applications. It is an acronym for “Report Program Generator.” -
LOGO
It was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It was created for educational purposes. It is not an acronym. -
B
It was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was created to be used for “recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.” It is not an acronym. -
ML
ML was developed in the early 1970s. It was developed by a group including Robin Milner. It was created to be a functional language that allows side-effects. It is an acronym for “MetaLanguage.” -
PASCAL
It was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created to be a more Structured language that promotes good programming practices. It is not an acronym. -
SQL
SQL was developed in the early 1970s. It was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It was created to deal with data in IBM’s unique “quasi-relational database management system.” It is an acronym for “Structured Query Language.” -
C
It was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It was created so that Unix operating system could be re-implemented. It is not an acronym. -
ADA
It was developed by Jean Ichbiah. It was created for the US Department of Defense to make mission-critical applications. It is not an acronym. -
C++
C++ was developed in the early 1980s. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. The developer says that it was created “to make writing good programs easier and more pleasant for the individual programmer.” It is not an acronym. -
Python
It was developed by Guido van Rossum. It was created to be used with Amoeba and be capable of “exception handling” and “interfacing.” It is not an acronym. -
Virtual Basic
It was developed by Alan Cooper. It was created to have a quicker way to program. It is not an acronym. -
PHP
It was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was created for web development. It is a recursive acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.” -
Delphi
It was developed by Anders Hejlsberg. It was created for educational purposes. It is not an acronym. -
Java
It was developed by James Gosling. The company says it was created to be the “union of digital consumer devices and computers.” It is not an acronym. -
Javascript
It was developed by Brendan Eich. It was created to be a programming language for a web browser made by Netscape, which was one of the first web browsers. It is not an acronym.