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Period: to
programming timespan
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FORTRAN
-John Backus - IBM
-Numeric and scientific computing -
MATH-MATIC
-Charles Katz
-Intended as improvement to FORTRAN -
COBOL
-Grace Hopper
-business, finance, administrative tasks
-COmmon Business Oriented Language -
BASIC
-John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
-designed for people who weren't experienced in computer programming, or educational
-Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
-Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
-meant for educational use
-it's name "logo" is "word" in Greek, because it used words instead of numbers like other languages at the time -
PASCAL
-Niklaus Wirth
-intended for structured prgramming and data structuring
-named in honor of Blaise Pascal -
C
-Dennis Ritchie
-System and application software
-named C because it built off earlier language B -
SQL
-Donald D Chamberlin and Raymond F Boyce - IBM
-structuring and managing databases
-Strucutred Query Language -
ADA
-Jean Ichbiah
-originally contracted to the US Dept. of Defense for reliable real-time applications like aviation software and sattelite and missile guidance -
C++
-Bjarne Stroustrup
-added to C, system and application software
-name changed from "C plus classes" to C++ to be simpler and differentiate from normal C -
JAVA
-Sun Microsystems-James Godsling -
VISUAL BASIC
-Microsoft
-GUI applications, action controls, and visual objects
-same as basic but visually