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Published by Konrad Zuse in 1948 but in 1998 was when its first compiler was made for it. Designed for the engineering field. Plankalkul stood for formal system for planning.
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Was developed by Anders Hejlsberg. It's purpose was to provide a database programmers can connect to "Oracle Database". Delphi refers to the greek myth "Oracle at Delphi".
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Fortran was developed by John Backus. It's main use was in the scientfic and engineering fields. Fortran means Formula Translator. Also it is used to benchmark supercomputers!
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Made by John McCarthy. Was developed to show that you could build a Turing-complete program language for algorithms. Lisp stood for List Processing.
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Created by a group with Charles Katz. It's purpose was to be a improvement on FORTRAN. MATH-MATIC is a marketing name for the AT-3 compiler and programming language for UNVAC I & II.
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Designed by a team of computer professionals; Conference on Data Systems Languages. Designed to program handle data and make reports from those data's of banks, manufacters, and big companies. COBOL means: Common Business-Oriented Language.
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Developed by IBM to be a high level program language and to be used in the business field. RPG stood for Report Program Generator.
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John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, and Dartmouth developed this program code. It was made to be an easy language novices can learn. The acronym means: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Made by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. First purpose was to create a math enviroment where kids could play with words and sentences. Mostly remembered for the use of "turtle graphics" where you insert commands for movement and drawings made lines on a screen or with a robot called "turtle". LOGO was derived from the Greek root "Logos" which means thought to make this recognizable among other programing code.
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Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Purpose was to be used as a system programming, the acronym was said to be from BCPL since the program itself was based off it.
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Made by Nikalus Wirth. It's purpose was to teach students structured programming. Called PASCAL to honor french mathematicican and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
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This program code was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Designed to be a general-purpose program code. It is called "C" because it is a refined version of "B".
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Made by Robin Milner, it is a general-purpose programming code, and ML stood for metalanguage.
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Developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce to be a special-purpose program language and to manage data held in IBM database. SQL stood for Structured Query Language.
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Was developed in the early 1980s by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. ADA is to honor the first programmer; Augusta Ada Lovelace. Was made to be a general-purpose program to be used among a variety of applications.
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James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and PAtrick Naughton all started the development of Java. It's purpose was to be object-orientated, robust, high performance, threaded, and dynamic. Called Java due to the high consumption of Java Coffee during development. A slogan was "Write once, Run Anywhere" meaing you could write it and run it on many diffrent platforms and it will be the same.
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Designed by Guido van Rossum to be general-purpose and high level language that is easy to use. Its name came from a TV series "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
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Developed by Microsoft to be a easy language to learn and use. Called Visual Basic because it derived from BASIC and the ease of developing graphical user interfaces (GUI).
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Developed by Brendan Eich. Developed because she wanted to complement Java with a novice friendly code like Visual Basic. Called JavaScript because it was considered a marketing move because Java was popular so JavaScript would be too.
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Originally made by Rasmus Lerdorf, now produced by The PHP Group. Made as a server-side scripting language for web development but now a general-purpose language. PHP stood for Personal Home Page but now Hypertext Preproccessor.