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Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Remington Rand to provide algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic, and arrays.
  • Fortran

    Formula Translation
    Designed by John Backus and is a general-purpose, imperative programming language.
  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy and consists of a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
  • COBOL

    Common Business-Oriented Language
    Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney to be legacy applications deployed on mainframe computers.
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
  • RPG

    Report Program Generator
    Designed by IBM to be a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401.
  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert and is an educational programming language.
  • B

    Derived from BCPL or possibly Bon
    Designed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth, intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie and creates constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions.
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language
    Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, manages data held in a relational database management system.
  • ML

    MetaLanguage
    Designed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
  • ADA

    Named after Ada Lovelace who is credited with being the First Computer Programmer
    Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah to supersede over 450 programming languages.
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup and used mainly for system programming and embedded.
  • Visual Basic

    Designed by Microsoft and enables the rapid application development of graphical user interface applications.
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum to help express concepts in fewer lines of code.
  • Delphi

    Designed by Borland to be an integrated debugger for all platforms including mobile, source control, and support for third-party plugins.
  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling, specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich, used in environments that are not Web-based, such as PDF documents, site-specific browsers, and desktop widgets.
  • PHP

    Personal Home Page/Hypertext Preprocessor
    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and is a server-side scripting language designed for web development.