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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse designed Plankalul for engineering purposes, and was the first high level programming language for a computer. -
COBOL
A committee of computer manufacturers and users and U.S. government organizations established COBOL to see the language standard in order to ensure its portability across diverse systems. -
Fortran
Combinations of the words Formula and Translation.
John W. Backus made a proposal to his supervisors for another version for programming their mainframe. -
Math-Matic
Written by a team led by Charles Katz under orders of Grace Hopper -
Lisp
John McCarthy made a paper that showed, with a few operators and function notations you can make a language for algorithms. -
RPG
Originally created by IMB for matching record and sub-total reports and has evolved sense. -
BASIC
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz created BASIC with the intent on making computers not just for people in math and science fields. -
LOGO
Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. The goal was to create a "math land" for kids to mess around with words and sentences -
B
Made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
It is a stripped down version of BCPL to fit within the memory capacity of the microcomputers of the time -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach students programming.
Named after philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
Develpoed by Dennis Rithcie at Bell Labs to re-implement Unix system. -
ML
Developed by Robert Miler at the university of Edinburgh, to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
SQL
Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce to retrieve data stored in a database management system. -
C++
Danish COmputer scientist found that Stimula was too slow and BCPL was too low-level, he decided to make C grater by giving it Stimula features. The name "Signifies the evolutionary changes from C". -
Visual Basic
Microsoft made visual Basic to complete C++, Pascal and other languages. -
Python
Guido van Rossum made Python as a successor to ABC -
Java
James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton originally created Java for T.V but it was too advanced. They made it like C++ so programmers would feel comfortable. -
Javascript
Mosaic Communications employed NCSA Mosaic workers to make a web browser to overshadow NCSA Mosiac. The founder of the company believed that they needed a "glue language" that was easy for web designers to use that would allow them to make things like images and plug-ins. -
Delphi
Named after the Oracle of Delphi.
Created by Embarcadero Technologies, o provide database connectivity to programmers -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote Common Gateway Interface programs in C, then made them work with web forms to communicate with databases.