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Fortran
Created by John Backus and IBM for scientific and engineering applications. -
MATH-MATIC
Created by Remington Rand as Algebraic Translator 3 as a compiler for the UNIVAC. -
Lisp
A family of languages created by John McCarthy to allow practical mathematical applications. Lisp derives from List Processor. -
COBOL
Created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney for business and finance applications. COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. -
RPG
Created by IBM as a high level programming language meant to replicate punch cards. RPG means Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to enable students and others to use computers. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Created by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon as an educational language. LOGO is derived from the Greek logos, or thought. -
B
Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for system and language software and Ritchie speculated that it was named after Bon, an earlier but unrelated language Thompson had designed. -
PASCAL
Created by Niklaus Wirth to help encourage good programming practices. Pascal was named after French mathematician Blaise Pascal. -
C
Created by Dennis Ritchie to re-implement the Unix operating system. C simply means C -
Plankalkul
Created by Konrad Zuse designed for engineering and means formal system for planning or Plan Calculus. Concept introduced in 1948, released in 1972 -
ML
Created by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics. It stands for MetaLanguage. -
SQL
Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce to manage data. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Created by Jean Ichbiah for the US DoD to replace the 450 other languages the DoD was using, ADA was named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup to resource-constrained large systems and embedding. C++ is an extension of C -
Visual Basic
Created by Microsoft as an easy to use Integrated development Environment for developing software for Windows. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC. -
Python
Created by Guido von Rossum as an interpreted language designed for readability and fewer lines of code. -
Delphi
Created by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows but became more object-oriented and widespread in modern uses. -
Java
Created by James Gosling to allow developers to write a program once and run it anywhere. Much of its syntax is derived from C and C++ -
JavaScript
Created by Brendan Eich to help develop websites. JavaScript is not related to Java. -
PHP
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now means Hypertext Preprocessor.