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Was the first programming language designed for a computer. Made by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkul most likely derives from "propositional calculus" or "plan calculus".
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Fortran stands for "Formula Translation". Was developed by IBM. Made for scientific and numeric computing.
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Made by Charles Katz and Grace Hopper. Made for the UNIVAC computer. MATH-MATIC was a marketing name.
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Lisp is a family of programming languages. Made by John McCarthy. Lisp stands for ""LISt Processor"
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COBOL stood for "common business-oriented language". Was designed for businesses. Made by the company CODASYL.
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Stands for "Report Program Generator". Was made for for business applications. Was created by IBM.
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Stood for "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Was a programming language designed for ease of use.
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Was an educational programming language. LOGO derives from the Greek logos. Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
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Created by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Was developed for machine-independent applications. Was named B after BCPL.
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Made as a procedural programming language. Created by Niklaus Wirth. Named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
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Was made as a general purpose programming language. Created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Named C, because it was a successor to B.
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ML stands for "Meta Language". Created to be a functional programming language. Created by Robin Milner.
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SQL stands for "Structured Query Language". Made for managing computer databases. Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and
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Created by Jean Ichbiah. Was made for the United States Department of Defense to supersede programming languages used by them. Named after Ada Lovelace.
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Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Created as an extension to C. Named C++ after C.
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Created by Guido van Rossum. Designed as a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Guido Rossum decided to name it after Monty Python.
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Made for application development on WIndows. Was a successor to BASIC. Made by Microsoft.
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Created by Anders Hejlsberg. Made for application development. Delphi is the name for an oracle.
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Designed by James Gosling. Was made as a generic-purpose programming language and was designed for developers to write once, and run anywhere. Named after Java coffee.
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Made for web browser Netscape Navigator. Created by Brendan Eich. Named Javascript because of a licensing agreement, between Sun (the company that created Java).
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Made as a scripting language for web development. Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. Now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.