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Plankalkul
Means Pan Calculus
Created by Konrad Zuse
Designed for engineering -
Fortran
The IBM mathematical FORmula TRANslating System
Created by John Backus
Used in high performance computing and has been used to rank the fastest computers in the world -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Charles Katz
Created as an early programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II -
Lisp
LISt Processing
Created by John McCarthy
Used as a practical mathematical notation for programs -
COBOL
Stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language
Developed by Grace hopper
Used for making business, finance, and administrative systems. -
RPG
Report Program Generator
Created by IBM
Created for punch card use in 1959 it is still being used today in further revisions to be a more useful tool for today -
BASIC
Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
devloped by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
Created in order to make a language that everybody could learn -
LOGO
The name is derived from the greek word logos which means "word"
Created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
LOGO is an adaptation of the lisp programming language used for educational purposes -
B
B was developed at bell labs
Developed by Ken Thompson
One of the first languages
developed mainly in order to simplify the programming language BCPL -
PASCAL
Crated by Niklaus worth
Created to try and make sturctured and more organised programming more common -
ADA
Named after first programmer Ada Lovelace
Devloped by Jean Ichbiah and Honeywell Bull
Used to create a standard language for the department of defense -
ML
ML stand sfor Metalanguage
Created by Robin Milner
Created to develop proof tactics in lcf theorum -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie
Used to make a programming language for things that were formerly programmed in assembly language -
SQL
Structured Query Language
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce
Created to manage relational database management system -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
Created in order to add classes to the normal C language -
Delphi
Also called Object Pascal
developed by Niklaus Wirth and Anders Hejlsberg
Was created in order to be able to use the apple class framework -
Python
Created by Guido van Rossum
Designed to be a general purpose language like C++ -
Visual BASIC
Visual Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Created as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which is used to help compile and organise code. Runs off of BASIC. -
JAVA
Developed by James Gosling
Created in order to create a language that can run similarly on almost any operating system -
Javascript
Developed by Brandan Eich
Created for web browsers making it a possibility for client side could interact with users. -
PHP
Personal Home Page
Created by Rasmus Lerdof
Used as a web development tool
