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Computer scientist John Backus, with the assistance of his superiors at IBM, develops the programming language Fortran, which allows the end user to quickly write computer programs.
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Computer scientist John McCarthy develops the programing language Lisp while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which allows the end user to create interacitve and easily maintainable computer programs.
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Computer scientist Jean E. Sammet (Sylvania Electric Products) develops the programming language COBOL, which allows for the creation of easy to understand computer programs.
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Computer scientist Niklaus Wirth develops the programming language Pascal, a programming language which is both easy to comprehend and debug.
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Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie (AT&T Bell Labs) develops the programming language C, which allows for the development of firmware and portable application software.
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Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup develops the C++ programming language, which allows for the efficient and flexible development of system software.
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Computer scientists Brad Cox and Tom Love develop the Objective-C programming language, adding Smalltalk-type messaging to the existing C programming language allowing for the development of easy to comprehend yet sophisticated programs.
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Computer programmer Larry Wall develops the Perl programming language, which allows easy manipulation of text files due to powerful text processing facilities without unspecified data limits.
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Computer programmer Guido van Rossum develops the Python programming language used for processing several types of data and multimedia such as images and numbers.
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Computer scientist Yukhiro Matsumoto, drawing inspiration from other programming languages such as Perl, develops the programming language Ruby, which allows for readable and simple computer programs.
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Computer scientist James Gosling develops the programming language Java, which allows for the development of cross-platform computer programs.
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Computer programmer Ramsus Lerdorf develops the PHP programming language, which allows for the development of dynamic Web pages.
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Technologist Brendan Eich develops the JavaScript programming language, which allows easy to implement user interfaces which improve user experince, even when offline.
