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Plankalkul
Developer: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: Engineering
Name- significance: German for Plan Calculus
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Fortran
Developer: John Backus
Purpose: Scientific and Engineering Applications
Name- Significance: Comes from Formula Translating System
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MATH- MATIC
Developer: Charles Katz
Purpose: Improvement of Frotran
Name- Significance: None
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Lisp
Developer: John McCarthy
Purpose: Mathematical notation for computer programs
Name- Significance: None
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COBOL
Developer: Conference on Data Systems Languages
Purpose: Business
Name- Significance: Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language
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RPG
Developer: IBM
Purpose: Business
Name- Significance: Stands for Report Program Generator
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Basic
Developer:John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: To let students in other feilds than science and mathematics to use computers
Name- Significance: Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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LOGO
Developer:by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: educational Programming language
Name- Significance: Distinguished itself from other programming languages that were primarily number oriented, not graphics or logic oriented.
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C
Developer: Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: General
Name- Significance: None
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B
Developer: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: Machine independent applications
Name- Significance: May be contraction of BCPL
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PASCAL
Developer: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: To encourage good programming practices
Name- Significance: None
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ML
Developer: Robin Milner
Purpose: General
Name- Significance: Stands for metalanguage
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SQL
Developer: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: Managing Data
Name- Significance: Stands for Structured Query Language
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C++
Developer: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: General
Name- Significance: None
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Python
Developer: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: General
Name- Significance: None
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Visual Basic
Developer: Microsoft
Purpose: Rapid apllication Development
Name- Significance:
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PHP
Developer: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Web- development
Name- Significance: None
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Java
Developer: James Gosling
Purpose: Help Application developers
Name- Significance: Named after "Java Coffee"
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JavaScript
Developer: Brendan Eich
Purpose: All kinds of things (Web browsers, Games, etc.)
Name- Significance: None
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ADA
Developer: Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: Large Applications
Name Significance: Named after Ada Lovelace
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Delphi
Developer: Embarcadero company
Purpose:Alternative to Visual Basic
Name- Significance: None
Source: Wikipedia