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Languages in Computer

Here we are with the various Computer languages used for programming in computer.There are very important for most of the Competitive exams.

The first computer language for electronic devices was short code.
The first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN.
FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation system.
FORTRAN language was designed at IBM, for scientific computing.
The language used for programs that benchmark and ranks the world’s fastest super computers is FORTRAN.
The name COBOL stands for “COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE”.
The language which was referred as “the mother of the COBOL language” was FLOW – MATIC language.
LISP stands for LIST PROCESSING language.
LISP language was designed for Artificial Intelligence research.
The first language to have format grammar was ALGOL.
ALGOL mean ALGORITHMIC Language.
ALGOL is a high level language designed specially for programming Scientific Computations.
Pascal language was named in honor of Blaise Pascal.
Pascal language was developed by Niklans Wirth.
A small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices is Pascal.
A general purpose programming language which was developed by Dennis Ritchie was ‘C’ language.
C++ language was known as Object Oriented Programming or OOP.
C++ is most after used in simulations, such as games.
C++ is sometimes called a hybrid language.
One of the preferred programming languages to develop professional applications is C++.
Ada is a structured, statically typed, wide spectrum, object oriented high level computer programming language.
Ada is an international standard.
CORAL stands for Computer On – line Real – time Applications Language.
Coral 66 is a general purpose programming language based on ALGOL 60.
Coral is specifically intended for real time and embedded applications.
PHP is a general purpose server side Scripting language Originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page.
At present, PHP is said to stand for Hypertext Pre – Processor.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
HTML is for displaying web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling.
Java language was developed to facilitate communication with the interactive T.V.
Visual Basic (VB) was derived from BASIC.
BASIC is a very limited scope language and was designed for non – computer science people.
Perl has often been described as the ‘Duct tape of the Internet’.
Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987.
PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.
BASIC means Beginner’s All purpose symbolic instruction code.