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MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC was developed by Grace Hopper to refine the A-0 compiler made by Sperry Rand. MATH-MATIC has no acronym. -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN was developed by John Backus and his team at IBM. FORTRAN is an acronym for formula translation. FORTRAN's purpose was to be available for a wide variety of applications. -
COBOL
COBOL was developed by people from IBM, RCA, and Sylvania Electric Products. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL's primary purpose is to write programs for businesses. -
BASIC
BASIC was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC's acronym stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and designed to be easy to use. -
LOGO
LOGO was designed as a tool for learning and developed by a team from MIT and LOGO is not an acronym. -
PASCAL
PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth, a member of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP.) It was named by mathematician Blaise Pascal. The letters do not stand for an acronym. The primary purpose was to allow for the development of well structured programs. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Richie from Bell Laboratories and is not an acronym. It is designed to act as a high level language. -
SQL
SQL was developed by Don Chamberlin of IBM. SQL's primary purpose is to manage data in a relational database management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories as an ugrade for the program language C and has no acronym. -
ADA
ADA was developed by Jean Ichbiah from the U.S.Department of Defence as a competition for a new standard language. ADA was named after Ada Lovelace who is often credited as the first computer programmer. -
JAVA
JAVA was developed by James Gosling and his team at Sun Company, JAVA is not an acronym but originally named OAK. JAVA was designed to make programs run on many different systems. -
VISUAL BASIC
VISUAL BASIC was developed by Microsoft and was derived from BASIC to make it easier to write programs for the Windows computer operating system. VISUAL BASIC does not have an acronym.