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Plankalkül
Designed by Konrad Zuse -- Used for engineering purposes -- The name means "plan for calculus" -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus and IBM -- General purpose -- The name is a combination of "formula" and "translation" -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand -- also called AT-3 -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy -- High-level -- The name is an acronym for "LISt Processing language" -
RPG
Designed by IBM -- High-level and used for business -- The name stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Designed by John E. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz -- General purpose -- Stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon -- Educational language -- The name means word or thought -
COBOL
Designed by CODASYL -- Business use -- The name is an acronym for "Common Business Oriented Language" -
PASCAL
Designed by Nicklaus Wirth -- intended to encourage good programming practices -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson -- Used for non-numerical applications such as system programming -- The name could be based on Bon -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie -- General Purpose -- Named "C" because its features came from the programming language B -
SQL
Designed by ISO/IEC -- Designed for managing data -- The name stands for "Structured Query Language" -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft -- General Purpose -- Named after August Ada King -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner -- General purpose -- The name stands for "meta-language" -
C++
Designed by Bjarn Stroustrup -- General purpose -- The name means "increment C by 1" -
Python
Designed by Guido van Possum -- High-level and general purpose -- Named after the show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" -
Visual Basic
Designed by Microsoft -- Intended to be easy to learn and use -- It is named this because it has a graphical interface and writes with BASIC -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf -- General purpose -- The name stands for "hypertext preprocessor" -
Delphi
Designed by Anders Hejlsberg -- High level and used primarily to build applications for Windows -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich -- High-level -- Originally named Mocha -
Java
Designed by James Gosling -- General purpose, designed to have as few implementation dependences as possible -- Named after Java coffee