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Some Programming Acronyms

Acronym Translation Intended Use
Fortran Formula translator Scientific programs
Cobol Common business oriented language Business applications
Basic Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Teaching programming
Lisp List processor Artificial intelligence
SQL Structured Query Language (4th level language) Query databases

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