Module One Lesson Two Assignment

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  • Plankakul

    Year: 1943-1945
    Person: Konrad Zuse
    Purpose: Programming language designed for engineering purposes.
    Letters: Means “Plan Calculus” in German

  • MATH-MATIC

    Year: 1947
    Person: Charles Katz
    Purpose: Developed as an improvement to Fortran. It carries out math based programs.
    Letters: Does not stand for anything.

  • LOGO

    Developed in 1947 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. This programming language is mainly used to command and draw line graphics. It utilizes turtles to carry out commands. Logo doesn’t stand for anything.

  • Fortran

    Year: 1957
    People: John Backus
    Purpose: It was designed for particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
    Letters: Does not stand for anything

  • Lisp

    Year: 1958
    People: Alonzo Church
    Purpose: created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programmers. It was a pioneer of computer science and math based programming languages.
    Letters: LISt Processor

  • COBOL

    Year: 1959
    People: Howard Bromberg,Howard Discount,Vernon Reeves,Jean E. Sammet,William Selden,Gertrude Tierney
    Purpose: It was designed for business, finance, and administrative applications that worked on large scale
    Letters: Common Business Oriented Language

  • RPG

    Years: 1959
    Person: Developed by IBM
    Purpose: programming language used for business applications and was developed for IBM OS.
    Letters: does not stand for anything

  • BASIC

    Year: 1964
    People: John George Kemeny,Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
    Purpose: Its purpose was to introduce people to programming and to encourage wide interest due to its simplicity
    Letters: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • B

    Year: 1969
    People: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose: It was designed to be non-numeric applications such as system programming
    Letters: B is not stand for anything

  • ML

    Year: Early 1970s
    Person: Robert Milner
    Purpose: Conceived to develop proof tactics in LCF theorem prover.
    Letters: ML stand for metalanguage

  • PASCAL

    Year: Designed in 1969. Published in 1970
    Person: Niklaus Wirth
    Purpose: Encourages good programmers to use structured programming and data structuring. Designed for object oriented programming.
    Letters: AKA Object-PASCAL

  • C

    Year: 1972
    People: Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose: It was designed for Unix based systems and provided low-level access to memory, as well as to encourage cross platform programming
    Letters: C simply refers to an advancement from the language “B”

  • SQL

    Year: 1974
    Person: Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce
    Purpose: special purpose programming language designed for managing data in a relational management database system.
    Letters: Structured Query Language

  • ADA

    Year: 1980
    People: Jean Ichbiah, Tucker Taft
    Purpose: Object oriented language intended to be used for large, long-lived applications that focused on reliability and efficiency
    Letters: ADA is not an acronym

  • C++

    Year: 1983
    People: Bjarne Stroustrup
    Purpose: Acted as an extension to C, and was intended to improve upon C and provide capabilities for object oriented programming
    Letters: C++ refers to improvement upon C

  • Python

    Year: 1991
    Person: Guido van Rossum
    Purpose: general programming language that emphasizes readability and allows codes to be simplified.

    Letters: does not stand for anything

  • Visual Basics

    Year: 1991
    Person: Microsoft
    Purpose: programming language that is intended for easy use and as a training programing language.
    Letters: does not stand for anything.

  • PHP

    Year: 1994
    Person: Rasmus Lerdorf
    Purpose: general programming language generally used for webpage design.
    Letter: Stands for Personal Home Page

  • Delpi

    Year: 1995
    People: Borland
    Purpose: It was designed to be an object-oriented, visual programming approach to application development.
    Letters: Based on ancient Greek landmark of the same name

  • Java

    Year: 1995
    People: James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
    Purpose: It was intended to be a general-purpose language that runs on one platform without having to be recompiled on another. Has overall high ease of access
    Letters: Based on java coffee

  • Javascript

    Year: 1995
    People: Brendan Eich
    Purpose: designed to be a simple, versatile and effective language that can be used to extend functionality in websites
    Letters: Does not mean anything.