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Plankalkul
Made by Konrade Zuse. Named after the "Planfertigungsgerät" -
Fortran
Made by John Backus. Name stands for "Formula Translating System" -
MATH-MATIC
Made by Charles Katz -
LISP
Made by John Mcarthy. Named after "List Processing" -
COBOL
Language designed for businesses. Made by by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet. Stands for "Common Business-Oriented Language." -
BASIC
Made by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." -
RPG
Designed by IBM. Stands for Report Program Generator. -
LOGO
Made by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. LOGO comes from Greek, meaning "word" -
B
Made by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie -
PASCAL
Made by Niklaus Wirth. Named after Mathematician Blaise Pascal -
C
Has many uses. Made by Dennis Ritchie -
ML
Made by Robert Miller. Many uses, but mainly used to prevent errors -
SQL
Stands for Structured Query Language. Made by ISO and IEC. Is used to manage data -
C++
Is a newer version of C. Has many uses just like it. Made by Bjarne Stroustrup -
ADA
Named after the first programmer, Ada Lovelace. Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah -
Delphi
Made by the Apple Company, Niklaus Wirth, and Anders Hejlsberg. Focuses on simplicity in programming -
Python
Many uses. Focuses on decreasing the amount and number of code lines. Made by Guido van Rossum. -
Visual Basic
Made by Microsoft. Comes from the BASIC language. Main uses include developing applications -
Java
An extremely wide variety of uses. Compatible on many devices. Made by James Gosling. -
Javascript
Made by Brendan Eich. Mainly used in browsers -
PHP
Stands for Hypertext Processor. Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is primarily used for web design.