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Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. It translated roughly into "Plan Calculus." His goal for the program was for it to solve general problems.
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Designed by John Backus and his IBM colleagues. It is a general use program, but finds its primary uses in numerical computation and scientific computing. Originally named FORTRAN, its name is derived from Formula Translation.
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Designed by a team led by Grace Hopper and Charles Katz. The program provides algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic. The name doesn't have any specific meaning.
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Lisp is shorthand for List Processing. IT was developed by John McCarthy mostly for symbolic manipulation of complex structures.
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Developed by multiple computer manufacturers and the US government, COBOL stands for Common Business-oriented Language.It is one of the oldest programming languages, therefore it isn't very intuitive. It's most commonly used in business application.
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RPG was developed by a various teams at IBM for business purposes. It was meant to replicate punch card programs that ran through the IBM 1401. It stands for Report Program Generator.
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BASIC was developed at Dartmouth College by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz to introduce beginners to programming. It is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Paper. It was used as a computer language intended for children's learning. LOGO doesn't stand for anything specific.
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B was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie . It's primary purpose was designed for non-numeric, machine-independent applications. The name may have come from Bon, an earlier programming language developed by Ken.
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PASCAL was created by Niklaus Wirth to teach young programmers good programming practices. It was named after Blaise Pascal who invented one of the first adding machines.
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SQL was developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce for data management and manipulation. It stands for Structure Query Language.
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C was developed by Dennis Ritchie and his team and Bell Lab. The name is inspired by the "parent" program "B." Its more intuitive and memory efficient program C++ is used more often with similar applications.
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ML's full name is Meta Language. It was designed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh for the purpose of being general-purpose. it has roots in Lisp.
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C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup and Bell Lab while at work on his PhD thesis as a better version of C. It is an object-oriented program that has many applications such as cloud systems and banking, as well as graphics. It was originally called "C with Classes" (because one of the additions to C was classes) but eventually became C++.
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Ada was developed by a French team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull. It was designed as a general use language with business applications and even missile guidance systems. It was named after the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace who is regarded as the worlds first programmer.
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Python was designed by Guido van Rossum as an object-oriented program. It is a general-purpose program with most applications in data analysis and visualization.
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Designed by Microsoft, it creation goal was to allow programmers to program in multiple languages more visually, hence the name Visual Basic. It is relatively easy to learn and use.
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PHP was created as a server side scripting language. It is used to create dynamic web pages. PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and is an acronym for Personal Home Page.
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Delphi was inspired by the Greek myth of the Oracle at Delphi. Developed by Borland, it has a wide variety of uses, mostly in desktop, mobile, and console software. *Delphi wasn't officially Delphi until much later, but for simplicity I have the date the project started as the date.
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Java was created by James Gosling. Its original purpose was in television, however it was far too complex for the industry at the time. It's almost exclusive and object-oriented program.
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JavaScript was originally called Mocha, and has no connection with the language Java. It was designed at Netscape by Brendan Eich and is most often used in web page programming.