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Plankalkul
Year the language was developed: 1942
The people who developed the language: Konrad Zuse
The primary purpose of the language: engineering purposes
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RPG
Year the language was developed: 1956
The people who developed the language: IBM
The primary purpose of the language: according to www.programmers.io RPG “provides a highly enabling programming environment for AS400 RPG Programmers.”
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Fortran
Year the language was developed: first published in 1957
The people who developed the language: John Backus led by a team of programmers at IBM
The primary purpose of the language: according to www.livephysics.com the program allowed easy translation of math formulas into code.
Acronym: FORmula TRANslation
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MATH-MATIC
Year the language was developed: 1957
The people who developed the language: Remington Rand
The primary purpose of the language: www.revolvy.com states it was used for compiling programs using decimals and fractions.
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COBOL
Year the language was developed: developed in 1959
The people who developed the language: Conference on data systems languages (CODASYL)
The primary purpose of the language: according to www.mainframegurukul.com COBOL programs are used globally by governmental and military agencies.
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Lisp
Year the language was developed: 1960
The people who developed the language: John Mccarthy
The primary purpose of the language: the purpose was for mathematical theory
Acronym: list processing
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BASIC
Year the language was developed: May 1, 1964
The people who developed the language: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
The primary purpose of the language: It’s purpose was to run programs in the General Electric computer system in schools 50 years ago according to time.com
Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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LOGO
Year the language was developed: 1967
The people who developed the language: Seymour Papert
The primary purpose of the language: the programming language was a tool for learning.
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PASCAL
Year the language was developed: 1968
The people who developed the language: Niklaus Wirth
The primary purpose of the language: to teach students structured programming
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B
Year the language was developed: It was developed in 1969
The people who developed the language: D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson designed the B programming language.
The primary purpose of the language: The programming language was used in the Multics, according to www.revolvy.com.
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C
Year the language was developed: was devised in the early 1970s
The people who developed the language: Dennis M. Ritchie along with Bell labs employees
The primary purpose of the language: the reason why the program was develop according to www.codingunit.com was “B language did not provide was the use of “structures”. The lag of these things formed the reason for Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the programming language C.”
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ML
Year the language was developed: 1970s
The people who developed the language: Robin Milner
The primary purpose of the language: according to www.whoishostingthis.com ML is an automatic memory management system.
Acronym: meta-language
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SQL
Year the language was developed: 1970
The people who developed the language: Dr. Edgar F. Codd
The primary purpose of the language: storing, manipulating and finding data
Acronym: Structured Query Language
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ADA
Year the language was developed: During the 1980s
The people who developed the language: Jean Ichbiah, he had a team under the CII Honeywell Bull computer company.
The primary purpose of the language: It helps detect bugs and eliminate them early on.
Acronym: According to www.adacore.com “The name “Ada” is not an acronym; it was chosen in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)”
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C++
Year the language was developed: Stroustrup started working on C with Classes in 1979, however In 1983, the name of the language was changed from C with Classes to C++ according to www.codingunit.com.
The people who developed the language: by Bjarne Stroustrup
The primary purpose of the language: system development and resource constraining
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Python
Year the language was developed: 1989
The people who developed the language: Guido Van Rossum
The primary purpose of the language: data structures for development
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Visual Basic
Year the language was developed: 1991
The people who developed the language: Alan Cooper
The primary purpose of the language: used for programming with visual elements for example windows.
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PHP
Year the language was developed:1994
The people who developed the language: Rasmus Lerdorf
The primary purpose of the language: according to www.softwareengineerinsider.com it was used for data retrieval on SQL databases.
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Delphi
Year the language was developed: 1995
The people who developed the language: Ander Hejlsberg
The primary purpose of the language: According to www.whoishostingthis.com Delphi’s purpose was to build window applications.
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Java
Year the language was developed: 1995
The people who developed the language: Brendan Eich with Netscape Communications corporation
The primary purpose of the language: enables interactive web pages
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Javascript
Year the language was developed: 1995
The people who developed the language: Brendan Eich with Netscape Communications corporation
The primary purpose of the language: enables interactive web pages
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