1. Popular Programming Languages FORTRAN—the oldest high-level programming language; designed for scientific and mathematical applications. John Backus

2. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. COBOL—designed for business transaction processing. Grace Hopper

3. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. Pascal—designed to teach structured programming; useful for math and science applications. Niklaus Wirth

4. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. BASIC—an easy-to-learn beginner’s programming language. Visual Basic— an object-oriented, fourth-generation version of BASIC. Kemeny and Kurtz

5. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. C, C++, C#—versions of the highly efficient C programming language; C++ and C# are object-oriented. Dennis Ritchie Bjorne Stroustrap

6. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. Java—object-oriented programming language commonly used for Web applications. –Platform independence—Java programs can run on any platform that supports the Java Virtual Machine. Java applets—concise stand-alone Java applications ready to be inserted into Web pages. –Class files –Parameters

7. Popular Programming Languages, Cont’d. Other high-level languages: –Ada –APL –LISP –Logo –HTML –PHP –Python –PL/1 –Prolog –RPG –SmallTalk –Perl –XML