Developed by IBM Corporation in the mid-1950s to be used for scientific and engineering applications that require complex mathematical computations.
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C#
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Developed to integrate the web into computer applications, and is now widely used to develop enterprise applications and for mobile application development.
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C++
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Based on C, was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in the early 1980s at Bell Laboratories.
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Visual Basic
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Introduced in the early 1990s to simplify the development of Microsoft Windows applications. Its features are comparable to those of C#.
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Ruby on Rails
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Created in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro Matsumoto—is an open-source, object-oriented programming language with a simple syntax that's similar to Python.
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Pascal
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A disciplined approach to writing programs that are clearer, easier to test and debug and easier to modify than programs produced with previous techniques.
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Scala
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Short for "scalable language"—was designed by Martin Odersky, a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Released in 2003, Scala uses both the object-oriented programming and functional programming paradigms and is designed to integrate with Java.
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C
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Developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories. It initially became widely known as the UNIX operating system's development language.
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Ada
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Based on Pascal, was developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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JavaScript
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Primarily used to add programmability to web pages.
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PHP
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An object-oriented, open-source "scripting" language supported by a community of developers and used by numerous websites.
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Python
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An object-oriented scripting language, was released publicly in 1991.
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Basic
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Basic was developed in the 1960s at Dartmouth College to familiarize novices with programming techniques.
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Objective-C
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An object-oriented language based on C. It was developed in the early 1980s and later acquired by NeXT, which in turn was acquired by Apple.
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COBOL
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Developed in the late 1950s by computer manufacturers, the U.S. government and industrial computer users, based on a language developed by Grace Hopper, a career U.S. Navy officer and computer scientist.
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Swift
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Apple's programming language of the future for developing iOS and OS X applications (apps).