Early programming languages were designed for specific kinds of tasks.
Modern languages are more general-purpose.
In any case, each language has its own characteristics, vocabulary, and syntax. While this page will not by any means cover all of the available programming languages, we will take a look at a number of the better-known languages. It is intended to handle business data records, so its mathematical capabilities are limited pretty much to dollars and cents, and percentages. Pascal Named after Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, mathemetician, and physicist, Pascal was specifically designed as a teaching language. Its object was to force the student to correctly learn the techniques and requirements of structured programming.