Ditto for the programming languages.

Each programming language was developed by a man/woman who sought to think different.

Some made it to the top of the charts while other fell by wayside.

Top 10 Programming languages and their inventors

Java was invented byDr.

James Arthur Goslingwho is also known as the father of the Java programming language.

Dr.Gosling developed Java when he was working for Sun Microsystems between 1984 and 2010.

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He has a framed picture of the first 1,000 digits of ?2 in his office.

Though it is past its heydays, C is still very popular and used extensively in system programming.

Its older than Java but is still popular among old programmers.

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3) C++ Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup is the inventor of famous C++ programming language.

Stroustrup also wrote a textbook for the language,The C++ Programming Language.

Hackers like it because its syntax is clear and expressive.

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Python is designed by Guido van Rossum of CWI.

you might learn Python with a single imagehere.

5) PHP Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf(born 22 November 1968) is a Greenlandic-Danish programmer.

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He continues to contribute to the project.

PHP is not considered as a programming language but it is used extensively to power the web.

PHP was originally created by Lerdorf in 1995.

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The full form of PHP is Personal Home Page.

Perl rose to fame because of its excellent text processing capability.

It is still the primary language used to develop reports, scripts on UNIX systems.

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Besides Perl, Wall is the author of thern Usenet clientand the widely used patch program.

He then became employed full-time by OReilly Media to further develop Perl and write books on the subject.

The best feature of JavaScript is its immense libraries like jQuery and node.js.

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JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich and developed by Netscape Communications Corporation to power Netscape Navigator web web app.

Ruby is influenced by Perl, Ada, Lisp and Smalltalk and designed for productive and enjoyable programming.

Ruby is mostly used for web system development and used by major websites like Twitter, Hulu and Groupon.

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Lisp stands for List processor.

Besides developing Lisp, he coined the now famous term artificial intelligence (AI).

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