Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul appeared in 1948. The person who created Plankalkul is Konrad Zuse. The primary purpose of Plankalkul is for engineering purposes.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC appeared in 1957. The person who created MATH-MATIC is Charles Katz. The primary purpose of MATH-MATIC is to be an improvement over FORTRAN.

  • Fortran

    Fortran appeared in 1957. The persson who created Fortran was John Backus. The primary purpose of Fortran is to be used in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry. The acronym that stands for Fortran is Formula Translating System.

  • Lisp

    Lisp appeared in 1958. The person who created Lisp is John McCarthy. The primary purpose of Lisp is to be a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • RPG

    RPG appeared in 1959. The company who created RPG is IBM. The primary purpose of RPG is to be used for business applications. The acronym for RPG is Report Program Generator.

  • COBOL

    COBOL appeared in 1959. The person who created COBOL is Grace Hopper. The primary purpose of COBOL is commonly used to write programs for businesses. The acronym for COBOL is COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

  • Basic

    The Basic language appeared in 1964. The people who created the Basic language is John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. The primary purpose of Basic is to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. The acronym stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

  • LOGO

    LOGO apppeared in 1967. The people who created LOGO is Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. The primary purpose of LOGO is to enable what Papert called "body-syntonic reasoning" where students could understand (and predict and reason about) the turtle's motion by imagining what they would do if they were the turtle.

  • B

    The B language appeared in 1969. The B language was made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The primary purpose of B is for the use of Multics.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL appeared in 1970. The person who created PASCAL is Niklaus Wirth. The primary purpose of PASCAL is to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

  • C

    The C language was developed between 1969 and 1973. The person who created the language is Dennis Ritchie. The primary purpose of C is to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.

  • ML

    ML appeared in 1973. The person who created ML is Robin Milner. The primary purpose of ML is to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. The acronym for ML is metalanguage.

  • SQL

    SQL appeared in 1974. The people who created SQL is Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. The primary purpose of SQL is for managing data held in a relational database management system. The acronym for SQL is Structured Query Language.

  • Ada

    The Ada language appeared in 1980. The person who developed the language are Jean Ichbiah. The primary purpose of Ada is supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD.

  • C++

    C++ appeared in 1983. The person who developed this language was Bjarne Stroustrup. The primary purpose of C++ is to be an enhancement to the C programming language.

  • Python

    Python appeared in 1991. The person that created Python is Guido van Rossum. The primary purpose of Python is allow programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic appeared in 1991. The company that created Visual Basic is Microsoft. The primary purpose of Visual Basic is so that a programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic program itself.

  • PHP

    PHP appeared in 1995. The person who created PHP is Rasmus Lerdorf. The primary purpose of PHP is to be used as a standalone shell on almost every operating system and platform, free of charge. A backronym for PHP is Hypertext Preprocessor.

  • Java

    Java appeared in 1995. The people who created Java are James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. The primary purpose of Java is to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

  • Javascript

    Javascript appeared in 1995. The person who created Javascript is Brendan Eich. The primary purpsoe of Javascript is to allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.