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Plankalkul
Konrad Zuse Creating procedures. -
Lisp
John McCarthy List processing. Applying functions to data. -
Fortran
Team at IBM led by John Backus. Translating math formulas to code. -
COBOL
Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL). Over time it improved by work done by CODASYL and ANSI (American National Standards Institute. Business. -
RPG
IBM Business applications. -
BASIC
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original language. Creating general use programs. Excellent for beginners. -
LOGO
Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon. Teaching of math skills and critical thinking. Movement commands to line graphs. -
B
Mainly by Ken Thompson with assistance from Dennis Ritchie. Later improved by Stephen C. Johnson. System development. Not numerica calculations. Easier than "Assembler." -
PASCAL
Niklaus Wirth Intended to teach structured programming but Macintosh and Motorola developed off of this. -
C
Dennis Ritchie General purpose. Structured programming. Lexical variable scope. Recursion. -
ML
Robin Milner Evaluation by functions. -
SQL
ISO/IEC Managing data from relational database management systems (RDBMS) -
ADA
Team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. Enhanced in 1990s by Mr. Tucker Taft. Stack-based general purpose language that is not tied to anything specific. -
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup General purpose. Software infrastructure -
MATH-MATIC
Stephen Wolfram Used to improve other languages. Used in fortune 500 coompanies and 15 major US departments. -
Python
Guido Van Rossum Complex applications. Modules. Exceptions. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft Create programs for Windows. -
Delphi
Borland Windows programming. Similar to BASIC. -
Java
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems Write once, run anywhere (WORA) -
Javascript
Brendan Eich and Netscape Communications Dynamic web pages -
PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf Web development.