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Plankalkul
Developed By: Konrad Zuse
Originally created for engineering purposes. -
Fortran (Formula Translation)
Developed by: John Backus
Used for High-Performance Computing. -
Lisp (List Processor)
Developed by: John McCarthy
Created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. -
COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)
Developed by: Committee headed by Joseph Wegstein
Created to make a standard business programming language. -
RPG (Report Program Generator)
Developed by: IBM
Created for business purposes. -
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instructional Code)
Developed by: John G Kemeny & Thomas E Kurtz
Designed to enable students at Dartmouth in fields other than science and math to use the computers. -
LOGO
Developed by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Created as a general purpose language with the capability of creating turtle graphics. -
B
Developed by: Ken Thompson
Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software. -
PASCAL
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
Developed by: Dennis Ritchie
Used for operating systems, and various applications. -
ML (MetaLanguage)
Robin Milner
Conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. -
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Developed by: Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce
Designed for managing information stored in a database. -
ADA
Developed by: Jean Ichbia
Originally created for the US Department of Defense. -
C++
Developed by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Created to improve upon C, as a general-purpose programming language. -
Python
Developed by: Guido van Rossum
Created to make code clearer and more concise, to make writing complex programs easier. -
Visual Basic
Developed by: Microsoft
An IDE, it allows users to create programs using the components provided in Visual Basic. -
Delphi
Developed by: Borland and Embarcadero Technologies
Created for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. -
Java
Developed by: James Gosling
Designed so that programs can be run without recompilation. -
Javascript
Developed by: Brendan Eich
Created for web-based programming and applications. -
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Designed to provide more functionality to websites and web-based applications.