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Plankalkul
Creator: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: First high-level language for a computer
Acronym: N/A -
Fortran
Creator: John Backus
Purpose: Numeric computation and scientific computing
Acronym: Formula Translation -
MATH-MATIC
Creator: Remington Rand
Purpose: UNIVAC I and II
Acronym: Algebraic Translator 3 -
Lisp
Creator: Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, Mike Levin
Purpose: AI
Acronym: LISt Processor -
COBOL
Creator: CODASYL, ANSI, ISO
Purpose: Business use
Acronym: Common business-oriented language -
RPG
Creator: IBM
Purpose: Replicating punched-card processing
Acronym: Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Creator: John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, Mary Kenneth Keller
Purpose: Making a language non-math and science students could use
Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Creator: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: Education
Acronym: N/A -
B
Creator: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: system and language software
Acronym: N/A -
PASCAL
Creator: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: encourage good programming practices
Acronym: N/A -
C
Creator: Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
Purpose: General-purpose, low level memory access
Acronym: N/A -
ML
Creator: Robin Milner
Purpose: language design and manipulation
Acronym: Meta Language -
SQL
Creator: ISO/IEC
Purpose: Managing structured data
Acronym: Structured Query Language -
ADA
Creator: Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: embedded and real-time systems
Acronym: N/A -
C++
Creator: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: General-purpose, low level memory manipulation
Acronym: N/A -
Python
Creator: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: General-purpose programming
Acronym: N/A -
Visual Basic
Creator: Microsoft
Purpose: Rapid application development
Acronym: N/A -
Delphi
Creator: Embarcadero Technologies
Purpose: Desktop, mobile, web, and console software
Acronym: N/A -
Java
Creator: Sun Microsystems
Purpose: Client-server web applications
Acronym: N/A -
Javascript
Creator: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Web applications
Acronym: N/A -
PHP
Creator: Zend Technologies
Purpose: Web development
Acronym: PHP: Hypertext Reprocessor