Programming Languages

By Shmoji

  • Plankalkul Was Developed

    Designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Plankalkul means formal system for planning.
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    History of Programming Languages

  • Fortran Was Developed

    Developed by IBM for scientific and engineering applications. Fortran derived from Formula Translating System. Basically the first programming language.

  • MATH-MATIC Was Developed

    Created by a group led by Charles Katz. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. Clearly, is not an acronym.

  • Lisp Was Developed

    Designed by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. The name LISP derives from List Processor.

  • COBOL Was Developed

    COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages. This committee was formed by a group effort of industry, major universities, and the United States Government. COBOL was made to be compatible among a significant group of manufacturers. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.

  • RPG Was Developed

    Developed by IBM for business applications. It stands for Report Program Generator.

  • BASIC was Developed

    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the BASIC language at Dartmouth College. They wanted to enable many varieties of students to be able to use computers. BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

  • LOGO Was Developed

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert to teach concepts of programming related to LISP. LOGO is not an acronym.

  • B Was Developed

    Initially Ken Thompson and later Dennis Ritchie developed B. B was designed for machine independent applications, such as system and language software and may have derived it's name from BCPL.

  • PASCAL Was Developed

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. Was named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal.

  • C Was Developed

    C was developed by Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. It is not an acronym but C does come after B...

  • ML Was Developed

    Designed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh to to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. Historically, ML stands for metalanguage.

  • SQL Was Developed

    SQL was devloped by ISO/IEC and designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing. Stands for Structured Query Language.

  • C++ Was Developed

    C++ is a programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup to be used with a variety of different operating systems. C++ is not an acronym but C++ is C with the increment operator...cute, right?

  • ADA Was Developed

    Ada was designed under contract to the United States Department of Defense from 1977 to 1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used. The team was led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull and Ada was designed to improve code safety and maintainability by using the compiler to find errors in favor of runtime errors. Ada is not an acronym.

  • Python Was Developed

    Designed by Guido van Rossum and developed by Python Software Foundation. Its design emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express ideas in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages. Is not an acronym.

  • Visual Basic Was Devloped

    Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft and was designed to be relatively easy to learn and use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC.

  • Delphi Was Developed

    Delphi was developed by Borland and was made to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package. Delphi is not an acronym.

  • Java Was Developed

    Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. It was made so compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. It's name is not an acronym.

  • PHP Was Developed

    A scripting language designed to fill the gap between SSI and Perl, intended for the Web environment. Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and developed by Zend Technologies. No acronym.

  • Javascript Was Developed

    Designed by Brendan Eich. It is one of the three essential technologies of World Wide Web content production. Is not an acronym and is also very different from Java.