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Plankalkul
-Designed by Konrad Zuse
-Developed for engineering uses -
Fortran
-Developed by John Backus
-Designed for scientific computing
-Stands for Formula Translating System -
MATH-MATIC
-Designed by Charles Katz
-Developed as the programming language of UNIVAC -
LISP
-Developed by John McCarthy
-Orginally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
-Stands for LISt Processing -
COBOL
-Designed by Conference on Data Systems Languages
-Designed for business and financial purposes
-Acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
-Developed by IBM
-Primarily designed for business applicartions
-Stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
-Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurt
-Designed to enable students other than in the science and math fields to use computers
-Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
-Developed by Wally Feurzeig
-Created as a teaching tool for programming basics -
B
-Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
-Designed for non-numeric, machine independent applications -
PASCAL
-Designed by Niklaus Wirth
-Developed to encourage good programming practices -
C
-Developed by Dennis Ritchie
-Designed to be faster and more efficient overall -
ML
-Developed by Robin Milner
-Designed to create proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover
-Stand for metalanguage -
SQL
-Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
-Developed to manage data in a database
-Stands for Structured Query Language -
Ada
-Developed by Jean Ichbiah
-Served to standardize programming languages for the Department of Defence -
C++
-Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
-Designed primarily for systems programming -
Visual Basics
-Developed by Microsoft
-Designed to be easy to learn and readily applicable to Windows operating systems -
Python
-Designed by Guido van Rossum
-Developed to emphasize code readability -
Java
-Developed by James Gosling
-Designed to by as universally usable as possible -
Javascript
-Developed by Brendan Eich
-Designed for the use in web browsers -
Delphi
-Developed by Anders Hejlsberg
-Designed for high-preformance and web-based applications -
PHP
-Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
-Designed for web development
-Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor