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Plankalkul Programming Language
Created by Konrad Zuse, Plankalkul was going to be used in a computer. The name comes from Greek, meaning Plan Calculus. -
Fortran Programming Language
Designed and developed by John Backus and IBM. Its use is for numeric and scientific computing. Its name stands for Formula translating system. -
MATH-MATIC Programming Language
Created by Charles Katz MATH-MATIC was an intended upgrade over FORTRAN, it was going to be used in UNIVAC computeres. -
Lisp Computer Language
Designed by John McCarthy and developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. It was used originally for pracitcal mathematical notation. The name is an acronym for list processing. -
COBOL Programming Language
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. It is a programming language used for business. It stands for Common business orientated language. -
RPG Programming Language
Developed by IBM, RPG is a high level programming language used for business. The name means Report Program Generator. -
BASIC Computer Language.
BASIC was designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. The main point and usage of BASIC was to allow the everyday person to use computers, because computers beforehand required custom computer languages to use. BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO Programming Language
Designed and developed by Wally Feurzig and Seymour Papert. It is used as an educational programming language. The name comes from the Greek word Logo and it means word or thought. -
B Computer Programming Language
B was designed and devoloped by Ken Thompson and Dennis RItchie. It is used for "recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software." (Users Reference to B) The name B may be a contraction of "basic computer programming language" though it is not confirmed. -
PASCAL Programming Language
Developed by Niklaus Wirth. PASCAL is used to teach students programming. The name PASCAL comes from the mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
SQL Programming Language
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL is a programming language used for database management. The name means Structured Query Language. -
C Programming Language
C was designed and devloped by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. The purpose of C is to efficiently map constructs to machine instructions, it has use in operating systems in computers. It is named C because it was the successor to B. -
ADA Language
ADA computer language is created for the US Department of Defense. It was created by Jean Ichbiah abd was further worked on by Tucker Teft. The primary use for ADA is to improve reliability and safety in computeres by finding compile errors in favor of runtime errors. It is named after Ada Lovelace, the person credited with writing the first computer program. -
C++ Programming Language
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is used for general purpose programming. Its name stands for C standard object oriented programming language. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, Visual Basic is a programming language used for third generation computers that is easy to learn and use. -
Delphi Programming Language
Created by Embarcadero Technologies. Mainly used for developing console, web and mobile applications. Its name is Delphi because originally Delphi was a beta codename but eventually stuck as the official name, -
JAVA Programming Language
Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems and developed by Oracle Corporation. Its use is simply to be able to write once and to read anywhere. WORA. Its name is a result of the company originally wanting to call it OAK but that name was already trademarked so the team got together to brainstorm names and ended up with Java, DNA and Silk. They ended up with Java. -
Javascript Programming Language
Designed by Brendan Eichd eveloped by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Ecma International. It is used for creating websites on the internet. The name comes from the companies other product, Java. -
PHP Programming Language
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP is used for web development and general programming. -
ML Programming Language
Designed by Robert Miller and others at University of Edinburgh. It is a general all purpose programming language. -
Python Programming Language
Designed by Guido van Rossum. Python is a high level general programming language. The name comes from the company name, Python.