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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was created by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Fortran (from FORmula TRANSlation) was created by John Backus to be a "general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing". -
Lisp
Lisp was created by John McCarthy to be a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. -
COBOL
COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) was created by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet "to meet the needs of banks, manufacturers, bureaucracies, and other big organizations with data handling and report generation requirements". -
RPG
RPG (Report Program Generator) was created by "IBM to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401". -
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created by Jean George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz for "less technical users" to be able to write mainframe programs. -
LOGO
LOGO was created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert to teach concepts of programming related to LISP. -
B
B was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for "primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming". -
PASCAL
PASCAL is named for Blaise Pascal. It was created by Niklaus Wirth to be a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
C was ceated by Dennis Ritchie t"o be c ompiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support." -
ML
ML (Meta Language) was created by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh to "develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover". -
SQL
SQL (Structured Query Language) was created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce to be a "special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS)". -
ADA
ADA (named after Ada Lovelace) was designed by Jean Ichbiah for “large, long-lived applications and embedded systems”. -
C++
C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup to "be a programming language that is general purpose, statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm and compiled". -
DELPHI
DELPHI (reference to the Oracle at Delphi) was created by Apple, Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg. "Delphi is a native code compiler that runs under Window v3.1 or Windows '95." -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was created by Wolfram Research. It is a commercial system used for graphics and symbolic mathmatics. -
Python
Python (Named after television show – Monty Python’s Flying Circus) was created by Guido van Rossum to be an object oriented language that is highly effective. It is easy to use, and extensible. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was created by Microsoft to be an "advanced BASIC used for application development". -
Java
Java was created by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems to "be concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible". -
Javascript
Javascript was created by Brendan Eich to "allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed". -
PHP
PHP (originally Personal Home Page, then changed to PHP HypertextPreprocessor) was created by Rasmus Lerdorf "to support simple, fast server-side extension for web development".