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FORmula TRANslating system or FORTRAN system created by John W. Backus. Used for numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, and computational chemistry.
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Intended to improve FORTRAN created by Charles Katz
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COmmon Business - Oriented Language or COBOL developed by Grace Hopper for business, finance, & administrative systems
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Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code created by John George Kemeny & Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Primary purpose was its ease of use.
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Logo created by Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert. It is a teaching language designed to produce useful scripts.
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Pascal begins development by Nicklaus Wirth who tried to create an efficient language.
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Developed by Dennis Ritchie to implement system software but was ultimately used t0 develop portable application software.
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Structured Query Language or SQL was created by Donald D Chamberlin & Raymond F Boyce desinged to manage data.
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Bijarne Straustrup added classes, virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inhesritance templates, & exception handling to C.
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ADA was designed by Jean Ichbiah to be simple and consistent.
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Microosoft created Visual Basic to enable graphical user interface (GUI) & rapid application development (RAD).
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Created by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, & Patrick Naughton. Tried to be the program that was able to "Write Once, RUn Anywhere."