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Plankalkul
developed by- Konrad Zuse
Primary use - engineering
what the letters stand for/ mean - formal system for planning
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl -
Fortran
developed by- john Backus and IBM
Primary use -suited to numeric computation and scientific computing Formula translation
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran -
MATH-MATIC
developed by- Remington Rand
Primary use -it was the language used to program the UNIVAC I &II
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC -
Lisp
developed by- John McCarthy
Primary use - used simple math notations for computer programs
what the letters stand for-LISt Processor
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) -
RPG
developed by- IBM
Primary use - Business Applications
what the letters stand for- Report Program Generator
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG -
COBOL
developed by- Grace Hopper
Primary use - Business and finance
what the letters stand for-common business-oriented language
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL -
BASIC
developed by-John G. Kemeny & Thomas E. Kurtz Primary use - "allow students to write mainframe computer programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System" what the letters stand for- Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC -
LOGO
developed by-Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
Primary use -Educational programming language
what the letters stand for-Greek logos meaning word or "thought
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) -
B
developed by- Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. Primary use - "was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine
independent applications, such as system and language software" Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) -
PASCAL
developed by-Niklaus Wirth
Primary use - to provide good programing teqniques and data structuring
what the letters stand for- Names after Blasise Pascal
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language) -
C
developed by- Dennis Ritchie Primary use - for machine that were coded in assembly language
what the letters stand for- Compiler
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) -
ML
developed by-Robin Milner & others Primary use - time type checking and type inference Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) -
SQL
developed by-Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Primary use - managing data
what the letters stand for- Structured Query Language
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL -
ADA
developed by-Jean Ichbiah
Primary use - large, long-lived applications
what the letters stand for- Augusta Ada Lovelace
Source- http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada -
C++
developed by-Bjarne Stroustrup
Primary use - system programing
what the letters stand for- the evolution from C
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B -
Python
developed by- Guido van Rossum
Primary use - general purpose
what the letters stand for- "Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python's Flying Circus"
Source- https://docs.python.org/2/faq/general.html -
Visual Basic
developed by- Alan cooper
Primary use - as a learning language for new programmers
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic -
Delphi
developed by- Borland
Primary use - to create desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language) -
Java
developed by- James Gosling
Primary use - create applications on your computer and for web plugins
what the letters stand for- named after "Java coffee"
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) -
PHP
developed by- Rasmus Lerdorf
Primary use - web development
what the letters stand for- Personal home Page Source- https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPHP -
JavaScript
developed by- Brendan Eich
Primary use - used to code for the world wide web
Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript