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Programming Language History
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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse
For engineering purposes -
Fortran
Developed by John Backus.
Abbreviation of "Formula Translation"
General-Purpose Language -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remmington Rand
Used to program math problems -
LISP
Developed by John McCarthy
Means "List Processing"
Used for Artificial Intelligence Programming -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper.
Means "Common Business Oriented Language"
Used for business purposes -
RPG
Developed by IBM
Means "Report Program Generator"
Used as a report-writing tool -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Stands for "Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
Is used for business and general use. Made for entry level programmers. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert.
Used to create visual images -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Used for system programming -
Pascal
Developed by Niklaus Wirth
It is now used to teach programming techniques -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie
General-Purpose Language -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner
Means "Meta Language"
General-Purpose Language -
SQL
Developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin
Means "Structured Query Language"
Used to store, query, and manipulate data -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Means "increment C by 1"
Provides control over hardware and allows for faster coding than C -
Ada
Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah and team.
General-Purpose Languages -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum
General-Purpose Language -
Visual Basic
Developed by Alan Cooper.
Allows users to create visual objects (such as graphs) -
Delphi
Developed by Borland (Now known as the Embarcadero Company)
Uses rapid application development -
Java
Developed by James Gosling
Used to make web applications -
JavaScript
Developed by Brendan Eich
Can be used to create websites -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
Means "Hypertext Preprocessor"
Used to create applications