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Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse. Was designed for engineering purposes and was the world's first complete high level language. -
Fortran
Created by IBM. Was the world's first high-level programming language designed specifically for writing programs involving mathematical and scientific computations. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by a team led by Charles Katz. Provided algebraic-style expressions, floating-point arithmetic, and arrays. -
Lisp
Created by John McCarthy. Commonly used for artificial intelligence programming. Stands for List Processing. -
COBOL
Created by CODASYL as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Created by IBM for punched card machines. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design is made for ease of use. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Created by Wally Fuerzeig as an educational programming language. Used mostly to create graphics. -
B
Created by Ken Thompson. Is an interpreted programming language for mini-computers. -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth. Developed for teaching programming as a systematic discipline and to develop reliable and efficient programs. Was named after Blaise Pascal, who made the first calculator. -
ML
Created by Robin Milner and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. ML stands for Meta Language. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie. Was developed to write the UNIX operating system cleanly. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah. Is a structured, statically typed, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language. Named after Ada Lovelace, who is known as the first computer programmer. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Was made as an extension of the C language. -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce. Is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
Python
Created by Guildo van Rossum. The goal was to be capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Was named after Monty Python. -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft to make it easier to program using Windows computers. -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Is an extension of C that works with web forms and to communicate with databases. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Javascript
Created by Brendan Eich. Is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. -
Java
Created by James Gosling. Is a general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes -
Delphi
Created by CodeGear as an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of software.