Programming Languages

  • Plankalkül

    "Plan Calculus" A programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.
  • Fortran

    "Formula Translation" The first commercially available language. A general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Designed by John Backus.
  • MATH-MATIC

    An early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC. Designed by Remington Rand.
  • Lisp

    Originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. Designed by John McCarthy.
  • COBOL

    "Common Business-Oriented Language" A compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney.
  • RPG

    "Report Program Generator" A high-level programming language for business applications. Designed by IBM.
  • BASIC

    "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". A family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
  • LOGO

    An educational programming language, designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
  • B

    Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software. Designed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
  • PASCAL

    A small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.
  • C

    A general-purpose, imperative computer programming language. Developed by Dennis Ritchie. One of the most widely used programming languages.
  • ML

    "Meta Language" A general-purpose functional programming language. Designed by Robin Milner.
  • SQL

    "Structured Query Language" SQL is used to communicate with a database. Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
  • Ada

    Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, designed by Jean Ichbiah. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), who has been credited as the first computer programmer.
  • C++

    A general-purpose programming language that was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C language
  • Python

    A general purpose and high level programming language for developing desktop GUI applications, websites and web applications. Designed by Guido van Rossum.
  • Visual Basic

    Based on the BASIC language, Visual Basic was one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces. Developed by Microsoft.
  • PHP

    "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" A general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. It was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf.
  • Delphi

    A rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal. Developed by Borland.
  • Java

    A general-purpose programming language that is intended to run on all platforms that support Java. Designed by James Gosling.
  • Javascript

    JavaScript is a scripting or programming language that allows you to implement complex things on web pages. Designed by Brendan Eich.