Computer Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse for creation of procedures.
  • COBOL

    Common business oriented. Developed by Grace Murray Hopper for business use.
  • Fortran

    Formula translating system. Developed for John Backus to shorten programming process.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz to improve Fortran.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM to replicate punch card processing.
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy for storing and manipulating programs.
  • LOGO

    Developed by Bobrow, Feurzeig, Papert, and Soloman for education.
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Developed by John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz for novice programmers.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for communicating instructions.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie for writing operating systems.
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner as an automatic theorem solver.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth for object-oriented programming.
  • SQL

    Structured query language. Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce for manipulating and retrieving data.
  • ADA

    Developed by US Department of Defense for large scale programming.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for commercial software packages.
  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum to enable clear programs.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft to extend capabilities of BASIC.
  • Java

    Developed by William Joy for electronic device communication.
  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf for producing dynamic web pages.
  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.
  • Javascript

    Developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton for web browsers.