Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkül

    Designed by Konrad Zuse, it is a programming language designed for engineering purposes.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Remmington Rand, it was built for use in the UNIVAC I and II.
  • Fortran

    designed by John Backus, it was created as a general purpose language that was suited for numeric computation and scientific computing.
  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy, Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    designed by CODASYL, it was designed for buisness use
  • RPG

    developed by IBM, it is a high-level programming language for business applications only usable on IBM or OS systems.
  • Basic

    Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, it was designed to be much easier to use than other programming methods at the time.
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    LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon, it was built as a general purpose language as well as a teaching method. The name stems from the Greek word logos which means thought.
  • B

    developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, for recursive, non numeric, machine independent applications, like system and language software.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth, PASCAL is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed as a small, efficient language
  • C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs, desigend to efficiantly work with other computer systems
  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner, ML is a general purpose functional programming language.
  • SQL

    SQL is a domain specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. It was developed by ISO/IEC.
  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft for the Us Gov to supersede over 450 other programming languages at the time.
  • C++

    created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extention of the C programming language.
  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling, its a general purpose language still used widely today.
  • Python

    Created by Guido van Rossum, Python is an interpreted, high level, general purpose programming language.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft, it is a third generation event driven programming language for their Component Object Model programming model first released in 1991.
  • Delphi

    created by Anders Hejlsberg, it was created for early windows and DOS systems.
  • PHP

    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, it is a popular general purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich, it was made to support event driven, functional, and imperative programming styles.