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Developed: 1948
Developed by: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: designed for engineering purposes -
Developed: 1957
Developed by: John Backus
Purpose: suited to numeric computation and scientific computing -
Developed: 1957
Developed by: Remington Rand
Purpose: Expressions in MATH-MATIC could contain numeric exponents, including decimals and fractions, by way of a custom typewriter -
Developed: 1958
Developed by: Steve Russell
Purpose: originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs -
Developed: 1959
Developed by: Howard Bromberg
Purpose: primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems
Acronym: common business-oriented language -
Developed: 1959
Developed by: IBM
Purpose: to replicate punched card processing -
Developed: 1964
Developed by: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Purpose: They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers
Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Developed: 1967
Developed by: Wally Feurzeig
Purpose: The language was originally conceived to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp -
Developed: 1969
Developed by: Ken Thompson
Purpose: was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software -
Developed: 1970
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose:intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
Developed: 1972
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: used to re-implement the Unix operating system -
Developed: 1973
Developed by: Robin Milner
Purpose: general-purpose functional programming language -
Developed: 1974
Developed by: ISO/IEC
Purpose: designed for managing data held in a relational database management system
Acronym: Structured Query Language -
Developed: 1980
Developed by: Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: was originally targeted at embedded and real-time systems -
Developed: 1983
Developed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979, as an extension of the C language as he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C, which also provided high-level features for program organization -
Developed: 1991
Developed by: Python Software Foundation
Purpose: The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale -
Developed: 1991
Developed by: Microsoft
Purpose: Intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use -
Developed: 1995
Developed by: Netscape Communications Corporation
Purpose: used in environments that are not Web-based -
Developed: 1995
Developed by: Sun Microsystems
Purpose: Intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" -
Developed: 1995
Developed by: Embarcadero Technologies
Purpose: was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows -
Developed: 1995
Developed by: Zend Technologies
Purpose: PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems and web frameworks