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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse. Initial Intent of Design: engineering. German for 'Plan Calculus'. -
FORTRAN
Developed by John Backus. Initial Intent of Design: to write a better program for an IBM 704 mainframe computer. Short for 'Formula Translation'. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Remington Rand. Initial Intent of Design: for the UNIVAC I and II. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy. Initial Intent of Design: practical mathematical notation. Lisp is short for "LISt Processor". -
COBOL
Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney. Initial Intent of Design: a business focused common language. COBOL stands for a common business oriented language. -
RPG
Developed by IBM. Initial Intent of Design: business applicators. Stands for the Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Initial Intent of Design: to be user friendly and to write program for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Developed by Cynthia Solomon, Wally Feurzeig, and Seymour Papert. Initial Intent of Design: educational. Logo comes from the Greek meaning of "thought" or word. -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson. Initial Intent of design: arithmetic functions, increment and decrement operators. B could be named after BPLC (B is essentially BPLC but condensed to fit memory capacities). -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Initial Intent of Design: promoted good use of programming practices, and "structured programming". Named after Blaise Pascal. -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Initial Intent of Design: make use of the Unix operating system. It is named C because it came after B. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner. Initial Intent of Design: proof tactics in an ATP. ML stands for Meta Language. -
SQL
Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Initial Intent of Design: RDSMS and RDBMS management. Stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Developed: Jean Ichbiah
Initial Intent of Design: for very large software systems
Named After: Ada Lovelace who was (the first computer programmer). -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Initial Intent of Design: to have a C that had Simula features. Was named C++ because it was described as "C with classes". -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum. Initial Intent of Design: programming concepts in fewer lines. Rossum was reading “Monty Python's Flying Circus” and derived the name from that. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft. Initial Intent of Design: Tripod did not have a language for Windows 3.0. Ruby and Basic were combined to make Visual Basic with Ruby providing the visual aspect. -
Java
Developed by James Gosling. Initial Intent of Design: interactive television, minimize implementation dependencies, and WORA(write once run anywhere). Named after Java Coffee. -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich. Initial Intent of Design: to be able to write a program directly into a Web page markup and to let programmers easily assemble images, plugins, etc. Preceding Java, Javascript was named to emulate a cutting edge programming language as a marketing strategy. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Initial Intent of Design: web development. Acronym stands for Personal Home Page. -
Delphi
Developed by Borland. Initial Intent of Design: was made for rapid application development tool for Windows. Delphi is an allusion to the Oracle at Delphi.