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Evolution of Coding

By jfiocco1

  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Stands for FORmula TRANslation. For high level computing. Still useful.

  • Cobol

    Cobol
    Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. Used for phones and credit card processing.

  • Basic

    Basic
    Stand for Beginner All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Made for people with a strong technical or mathematical background. First Microsoft product

  • C

    C
    Made by Dennis Ritchie. Named C Because its features were from an earlier language called B.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL
    Named for Blaise Pascal. Used by SKYPE.

  • C++

    C++
    Modified version of C. Very Popular.

  • Perl

    Perl
    Made by Larry Wall. Used by CRAIGSLIST.

  • PYTHON

    PYTHON
    Monty Python was the inspiration for the name. Made by Guido Van Rossum. Used by YouTube, Google Search, and NASA.

  • Ruby

    Ruby
    Yukihiro Matsumoto named Ruby. Made by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Blend of Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp. Used by BASECAMP.

  • PHP

    PHP
    Made by Rasmus Lerdorf. Running over 20 Million websites. Used by Facebook.

  • Java

    Java
    Made by a team led by James Gosling. Runs over 1.1 Billion PCs. Used by 2004 MARS ROVERS.

  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Unrelated to Java and is very different from Java. Made by Brendan Eich. Uses syntax influenced by Csyn. Used by RACKSPACE.

  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails
    Made by David Heinemeier Hansson. Has more than 1800 contributors.