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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was designed by: Konrad Zuse.
It was designed for Engineering purposes.
Its name is Plan Calculus in English. -
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Computer Languages Developed Over Time
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Fortran
Fortran was developed by: John Backus and IBM
It was built for science and engineering applications.
The name Fortran was derived from the name Formula Training System. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by: Charles Katz
The original intent was for use in a computer known as a UNIVAC.
It's name is completely unique. -
Lisp
Lisp was developed by: John McCarthy.
Lisp's original intent was created as a practical Mathmatical Notation for Computer Programs.
It's name derives from the "LISt Processing". -
COBOL
COBOL was made by: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden & Gertrude Tierney.
It was designed for businesses and financess.
COBOL is an acronym for: COmmon Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
RPG was developed by the company IBM.
RPG was designed for IBM I or other OS systems made by IBM.
The name RPG does not derive from anything however it does have the same name as the RPG gun. -
BASIC
BASIC was developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
It was designed for students at Darthmouth College in New Hampshire to learn programming if they were in other fields.
BASIC is an Acronym for: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
It was developed by: Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert
LOGO was originally intented to teach concepts of LISP, another programing language, however it is used for line animation graphics and to control a small robot which is named the turtle.
The program is a direct spin off of LISP. -
B
B was developed by: Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie.
It was designed for a group project known as Multics.
The program was taken from BCPL. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth.
It's original intent was to be used for object-oriented programming.
Its name is really Object Pascal. -
C
Developed by: Dennis Richie
It was designed for use re-implicating the Unix operating system
C was named after the letter C in the English Alphabet. -
ML
ML was developed by members of the University of Edinburgh but specifically Robin Milner.
It was developed to develop prove finders for the LCF Theorem in math.
It's name was derived from MetaLanguage. -
SQL
SQL was developed by: Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce.
SQL was designed to manage data in a relational database management system or is comonly used for "stream processing",
SQL is an acronym for Structured Querry Language. -
ADA
ADA was developed by: Jean Ichbiah.
It was built for the United States Department of Defense.
The program was named after the first programmer Ada Bryon. -
C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983.
It was designed for system programming however can be used for other things.
C++ was derived from the C language. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by the infamous Microsoft.
Visual Basic is designed to be an easy way to program for beginners.
Visual Basic is a direct descendent to the computer language BASIC and therefore gets it's name from BASIC. -
Python
Python was developed by: Guido van Rossum.
Python was designed to have fewer lines of code in a program.
The name Python does not derive from any major acronym or anything however it is free. -
Delphi
Delphi was developed by: Borland
It was developed as a rapid application tool for windows.
It is nicknamed Delphi because it was originially called Borland Delphi but later called Embarcadero Delphi due to the different companies who were producing it. -
Javascript
Javascript was developed by: Brendan Eich
It was developed for the use of web browsers and other programs such as the document reader PDF.
Javascript is very different from the programming language Java which was developed the same year. -
PHP
PHP was created by: Rasmus Lerdorf
It was orginally used for web servers and still is today however it is mixed in with HTTP code.
It's orginial acronym was Personal Home PAge but got changed later on to Hypertext Preprocessor, which the latter has no name relation to PHP. -
Java
Java was developed by: James Gosling and Sun Microsystems.
Java was created for the use of Sun Microsystems for their own use, specifically their own virtual machines and class libraries.
The name "Java" is a slang term for coffee and the languages logo is a cup of coffee.