Programming Languages

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE	CHARACTERISTICS
C Programming Language Appeared in 1972	Designed by : Dennis Ritchie Developer : Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs(creators). ANSI X3J11 (ANSIC), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14(ISO C) Paradigm : Imperative (procedural),structured Dialects : Cyclone, Unified Parallel C, Split-c, Cilk, C* Operating system : Cross-platform (multi-platform) Filename extensions : .c, .h
SQL Appeared in 1974	Designed by : Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce Developer : ISO/IEC Paradigm : Multi-paradigm Dialects : SQL-86, SQL-89, SQL-92, SQL:1999, SQL:2003, SQL:2006, SQL:2008,SQL:2011 Operating system : Cross-platform Filename extensions : .sql
Python Appeared in 1991	Designed by : Guido van Rossum Developer : Python Software Foundation Paradigm : Multi-paradigm (object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective) Dialects : Cython, RPython, Stackless Python Operating system : Cross-platform Filename extensions : .py, .pyw, .pyc, .pyo, .pyd
PHP Appeared in 1995	Designed by : Rasmus Lerdorf Developer : The PHP Group Paradigm : Imperative, functional, object-oriented, procedural, reflective Dialects : - Operating system : Cross-platform Filename extensions : .php, .phtml, .php4, .php3, .php5, .phps
JAVA Appeared in 1995	Designed by : James Gosling and Sun Microsystems Developer : Oracle Corporation Paradigm : Multi-paradigm (object-oriented, imperative, functional, structured, reflective, generic, concurrent) Dialects : Generic Java, Pizza Operating system : Cross-platform (multi-platform) Filename extensions : .java, .class, .jar

Links: 

1 - https://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons/

2 - http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/learn-programming-languages/

3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)