SOME PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES WITH THE YEAR THEY WERE CREATED, THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THEM AND THE PURPOSE OF THEIR CREATION

Programming Language	Year Created	Creator(s)	Purpose of Creation
Java	1995	James Gosling	General Purpose programming language, used to create many variety of application for different computing platforms.
C++	1983	Bjarne Stroustrup	General purpose programming language, used to create large programs and performance critical systems.
C	1972	Dennis Ritchie	General Purpose programming language, but mostly used today for system programming.
Python	1991	Guido Van Rossum	General Purpose but mostly used for research and scientific programming.
PHP	1995	Rasmus Lerdorf	Web scripting language, used to create scripts that run on web server.
Ruby	1995	Yukihiro Matsumoto	General Purpose programming language Can be used in Web Development.
Lisp	1958	John McCarthy	Artificial Intelligence.
Clojure	2007	Rich Hickey	General Purpose programming with tight Java Integration.
Visual Basic	1991	Microsoft Corp., Alan Cooper created the drag and drop design.	Creating GUI applications for Windows.
C#	2000	Microsoft Corp. with Anders Hejlsberg as chief designer.	Creating general applications for Windows Operating System.
Lua	1993	Roberto Lerusalimschy	Used as scripting language by Game Programmers.
Perl	1987	Larry Wall	General Purpose programming language, used as glue language in tying different systems.
MATLAB	1984	MathWorks	Numerical Computing.
Fortran	1957	John Backus	Numerical Computing.
COBOL	1959	Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden and Gertrude Tierney.	Business Applications.
Pascal	1970	Niklaus Wirth	Academic Fields
Tcl	1988	John Ousterhout	Rapid prototyping and embedded systems.
F#	2005	Don Syme	Mostly used as cross-platform CLI language.
JavaScript	1995	Brendan Eich	Creating scripts that run on client browser.
Erlang	1986	Ericsson	Mostly used for concurrent programming.
Objective-C	1983	Brad Cox and Tom Love	Creating application iOS and OS X