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Timeline of Programming Languages
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This is a record of historically important programming languages, by decade.
Pre-1950
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1804 | Jacquard machine | Joseph Marie Jacquard |
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| 1879 | Begriffsschrift | Gottlob Frege |
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| 1943–45 | Plankalkül (year of conceptualization) | Konrad Zuse |
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| 1943–46 | ENIAC coding system | John von Neumann, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Herman Goldstine after Alan Turing. The first programmers of ENIAC were Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman. |
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| 1946 | ENIAC Short Code | Richard Clippinger, John von Neumann after Alan Turing | ENIAC coding system |
| 1946 | Von Neumann and Goldstine graphing system (Notation) | John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine | ENIAC coding system |
| 1947 | ARC Assembly | Kathleen Booth<ref>
</ref><ref>Campbell-Kelly, Martin “The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)”, The Birkbeck College Machines, in (1982) Annals of the History of Computing 4(2) April 1982 IEEE</ref> |
ENIAC coding system |
| 1948 | CPC Coding scheme | Howard H. Aiken | Analytical Engine order code |
| 1948 | Curry notation system | Haskell Curry | ENIAC coding system |
| 1948 | Plankalkül (year of concept publication) | Konrad Zuse |
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| 1949 | EDSAC Initial Orders | David Wheeler | ENIAC coding system |
| 1949 | Short Code | John Mauchly and William F. Schmitt | ENIAC Short Code |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1950s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Short Code | William F. Schmidt, Albert B. Tonik,<ref>UNIVAC conference, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 171-page transcript of oral history with computer pioneers, including Albert B. Tonik, involved with the Univac computer, held on 17–18 May 1990.</ref> J. R. Logan | Brief Code |
| 1950 | Birkbeck Assembler | Kathleen Booth | ARC |
| 1951 | Superplan | Heinz Rutishauser | Plankalkül |
| 1951 | ALGAE | Edward A. Voorhees and Karl Balke |
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| 1951 | Intermediate Programming Language | Arthur Burks | Short Code |
| 1951 | Regional Assembly Language | Maurice Wilkes | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Boehm unnamed coding system | Corrado Böhm | CPC Coding scheme |
| 1951 | Klammerausdrücke | Konrad Zuse | Plankalkül |
| 1951 | OMNIBAC Symbolic Assembler | Charles Katz | Short Code |
| 1951 | Stanislaus (Notation) | Fritz Bauer |
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| 1951 | Whirlwind assembler | Charles Adams and Jack Gilmore at MIT Project Whirlwind | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Rochester assembler | Nat Rochester | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Sort Merge Generator | Betty Holberton |
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| 1952 | A-0 | Grace Hopper | Short Code |
| 1952 | Glennie Autocode | Alick Glennie after Alan Turing | CPC Coding scheme |
| 1952 | Operator programming | Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov with the participation Kateryna Yushchenko | MESM |
| 1952 | Editing Generator | Milly Koss | SORT/MERGE |
| 1952 | COMPOOL | RAND/SDC |
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| 1953 | Speedcoding | John W. Backus |
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| 1953 | READ/PRINT | Don Harroff, James Fishman, George Ryckman |
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| 1954 | Laning and Zierler system | Laning, Zierler, Adams at MIT Project Whirlwind |
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| 1954 | Mark I Autocode | Tony Brooker | Glennie Autocode |
| 1954–55 | FORTRAN (concept) | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | Speedcoding |
| 1954 | ARITH-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 |
| 1954 | MATH-MATIC | Team led by Charles Katz | A-0 |
| 1954 | MATRIX MATH | H G Kahrimanian |
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| 1954 | IPL I (concept) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon |
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| 1955 | Address programming language (with Pointers) | Kateryna Yushchenko | Operator programming - Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov & Kateryna Yushchenko & MESM |
| 1955 | FLOW-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 |
| 1955 | BACAIC | M. Grems and R. Porter | |
| 1955 | PACT I | SHARE | FORTRAN, A-2 |
| 1955 | Freiburger Code<ref>
</ref><ref> </ref> |
University of Freiburg |
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| 1955–56 | Sequentielle Formelübersetzung | Fritz Bauer and Karl Samelson | Boehm |
| 1955–56 | IT | Team led by Alan Perlis | Laning and Zierler |
| 1955 | IBM | ||
| 1958 | IPL II (implementation) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL I |
| 1956–58 | LISP (concept) | John McCarthy | IPL |
| 1957 | COMTRAN | Bob Bemer | FLOW-MATIC |
| 1957 | GEORGE | Charles Leonard Hamblin |
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| 1957 | FORTRAN I (implementation) | John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN |
| 1957–58 | UNICODE | Remington Rand UNIVAC | MATH-MATIC |
| 1957 | COMIT (concept) | Victor Yngve |
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| 1958 | FORTRAN II | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN I |
| 1958 | ALGOL 58 (IAL) | ACM/GAMM | FORTRAN, IT, Sequentielle Formelübersetzung |
| 1958 | IPL V | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL II |
| 1959 | APT | Douglas T. Ross | |
| 1959 | FACT | Fletcher R. Jones, Roy Nutt, Robert L. Patrick |
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| 1959 | COBOL (concept) | The CODASYL Committee | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN, FACT |
| 1959 | JOVIAL | Jules Schwartz at SDC | ALGOL 58 |
| 1959 | LISP (implementation) | John McCarthy | IPL |
| 1959 | MAD – Michigan Algorithm Decoder | Bruce Arden, Bernard Galler, and Robert M. Graham | ALGOL 58 |
| 1959 | TRAC (concept) | Calvin Mooers | |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1960s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ALGOL 60 | ALGOL 58 | |
| 1960 | COBOL 61 (implementation) | The CODASYL Committee | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN |
| 1961 | COMIT (implementation) | Victor Yngve |
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| 1961 | GPSS | Geoffrey Gordon, IBM |
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| 1962 | FORTRAN IV | IBM | FORTRAN II |
| 1962 | APL (concept) | Kenneth E. Iverson |
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| 1962 | Simula (concept) | Ole-Johan Dahl (mostly) | ALGOL 60 |
| 1962 | SNOBOL | Ralph Griswold, et al. | FORTRAN II, COMIT |
| 1963 | CPL (concept) | Barron, Christopher Strachey, et al. | ALGOL 60 |
| 1963 | SNOBOL3 | Griswold, et al. | SNOBOL |
| 1963 | ALGOL 68 (concept) | Adriaan van Wijngaarden, et al. | ALGOL 60 |
| 1963 | JOSS I | Cliff Shaw, RAND | ALGOL 58 |
| 1964 | MIMIC | H. E. Petersen, et al. | MIDAS |
| 1964 | COWSEL | Rod Burstall, Robin Popplestone | CPL, LISP |
| 1964 | PL/I (concept) | IBM | ALGOL 60, COBOL, FORTRAN |
| 1964 | BASIC | John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College | FORTRAN II, JOSS |
| 1964 | IBM RPG | IBM | FARGO |
| 1964 | Mark-IV | Informatics | |
| 1964 | Speakeasy-2 | Stanley Cohen at Argonne National Laboratory | Speakeasy |
| 1964 | TRAC (implementation) | Calvin Mooers | |
| 1964 | P′′ | Corrado Böhm |
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| 1964? | IITRAN | ||
| 1965 | RPG II | IBM | FARGO, RPG |
| 1965 | MAD/I (concept) | University of Michigan | MAD, ALGOL 60, PL/I |
| 1965 | TELCOMP | BBN | JOSS |
| 1965 | Atlas Autocode | Tony Brooker, Derrick Morris at Manchester University | Algol 60, Autocode |
| 1966 | JOSS II | Chuck Baker, RAND | JOSS I |
| 1966 | ALGOL W | Niklaus Wirth, C. A. R. Hoare <!– “A Contribution to the Development of Algol” in [ACM] (1966) [ACM] CACM 9(06) June 1966 –> | ALGOL 60 |
| 1966 | FORTRAN 66 | John Backus and his team | FORTRAN IV |
| 1966 | ISWIM (Concept) | Peter J. Landin | LISP |
| 1966 | CORAL66 | I. F. Currie and M. Griffiths | ALGOL 60 |
| 1966 | APL (implementation)<ref>
</ref> |
Kenneth E. Iverson |
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| 1967 | BCPL | Martin Richards | CPL |
| 1967 | MUMPS | Massachusetts General Hospital | FORTRAN, TELCOMP |
| 1967 | Simula 67 (implementation) | Ole-Johan Dahl, Bjørn Myhrhaug, Kristen Nygaard at Norsk Regnesentral | ALGOL 60 |
| 1967 | InterLisp | D.G. Bobrow and D.L. Murphy | Lisp |
| 1967 | EXAPT | Herwart Opitz, Wilhelm Simon, Günter Spur, and Gottfried Stute at RWTH Aachen University and TU Berlin | APT |
| 1967 | SNOBOL4 | Ralph Griswold, et al. | SNOBOL3 |
| 1967 | XPL | William M. McKeeman, et al. at University of California, Santa Cruz<br />J. J. Horning, et al. at Stanford University | PL/I |
| 1967 | Space Programming Language (SPL) | System Development Corporation | JOVIAL |
| 1968 | ALGOL 68 (UNESCO/IFIP standard) | Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Barry J. Mailloux, John E. L. Peck and Cornelis H. A. Koster, et al. <!– The final version, MR 101, was adopted by the Working Group on 20 December 1968 in Munich, and was subsequently approved for publication by the General Assembly of I.F.I.P. –> | ALGOL 60 |
| 1968 | POP-1 | Rod Burstall, Robin Popplestone | COWSEL |
| 1968 | DIBOL-8 | DEC | DIBOL |
| 1968 | Forth (concept) | Moore | |
| 1968 | LOGO | Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon | LISP |
| 1968 | MAPPER | Unisys | CRT RPS |
| 1968 | REFAL (implementation) | Valentin Turchin |
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| 1968 | TTM (implementation) | Steven Caine and E. Kent Gordon, California Institute of Technology | GAP, GPM |
| 1968 | PILOT | John Amsden Starkweather, University of California, San Francisco | Computest |
| 1969 | PL/I (implementation) | IBM | ALGOL 60, COBOL, FORTRAN |
| 1969 | B | Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie | BCPL |
| 1969 | Polymorphic Programming Language (PPL) | Thomas A. Standish at Harvard University | |
| 1969 | SETL | Jack Schwartz at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | ALGOL 60 |
| 1969 | TUTOR | Paul Tenczar & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
| 1969 | Edinburgh IMP | Edinburgh University | Algol 60, Autocode, Atlas Autocode |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1970s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Forth (implementation) | Charles H. Moore | |
| 1970 | POP-2 | Robin Popplestone | POP-1 |
| 1970 | SAIL | Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull | ALGOL-60 |
| 1970 | Pascal | Niklaus Wirth, Kathleen Jensen | ALGOL 60, ALGOL W |
| 1970 | BLISS | Wulf, Russell, Habermann at Carnegie Mellon University | ALGOL |
| 1971 | KRL | Daniel G. Bobrow at Xerox PARC, Terry Winograd at Stanford University | KM, FRL (MIT) |
| 1971 | Sue | Ric Holt et al. at University of Toronto | Pascal, XPL |
| 1971 | Compiler Description Language (CDL) | Cornelis H.A. Koster at University of Nijmegen | |
| 1972 | Smalltalk-72 | Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Xerox PARC | Simula 67 |
| 1972 | PL/M | Gary Kildall at Digital Research | PL/I, ALGOL, XPL |
| 1972 | K&R C | Dennis Ritchie | B, BCPL, ALGOL 68 |
| 1972 | INTERCAL | Don Woods and James M. Lyon |
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| 1972 | Prolog | Alain Colmerauer | 2-level W-Grammar |
| 1972 | Structured Query language (SQL) | IBM | ALPHA, Quel (Ingres) |
| 1973 | COMAL | Børge Christensen, Benedict Løfstedt | Pascal, BASIC |
| 1973 | ML | Robin Milner | |
| 1973 | LIS | Jean Ichbiah et al. at CII Honeywell Bull | Pascal, Sue |
| 1973 | Speakeasy-3 | Stanley Cohen, Steven Pieper at Argonne National Laboratory | Speakeasy-2 |
| 1974 | CLU | Barbara Liskov | ALGOL 60, Lisp, Simula |
| 1974 | MAINSAIL | Stanford University | SAIL |
| 1974 | GRASS | Thomas A. DeFanti | BASIC |
| 1974 | BASIC FOUR | MAI BASIC Four Inc. | Business BASIC |
| 1974 | PROSE modeling language | CDC 6600 Cybernet Services | SLANG, FORTRAN |
| 1975 | ABC | Leo Geurts and Lambert Meertens | SETL |
| 1975 | Irvine Dataflow (concept) | Arvind?, University of California, Irvine | |
| 1975 | PROSE modeling language Time-Sharing Version | CDC 6400 Cybernet KRONOS Services | SLANG, FORTRAN |
| 1975 | Scheme | Gerald Jay Sussman, Guy L. Steele, Jr. | LISP |
| 1975 | Altair BASIC | Bill Gates, Paul Allen | BASIC |
| 1975 | CS-4 | James S. Miller, Benjamin M. Brosgol et al. at Intermetrics | ALGOL 68, BLISS, ECL, HAL |
| 1975 | Modula | Niklaus Wirth | Pascal |
| 1976 | Plus | Allan Ballard, Paul Whaley at the University of British Columbia | Pascal, Sue |
| 1976 | Smalltalk-76 | Xerox PARC | Smalltalk-72 |
| 1976 | Mesa | Xerox PARC | ALGOL |
| 1976 | SAM76 | Claude A.R. Kagan | LISP, TRAC |
| 1976 | Ratfor | Brian Kernighan | C, FORTRAN |
| 1976 | S | John Chambers at Bell Labs | APL, PPL, Scheme |
| 1976 | SAS | SAS Institute | |
| 1976 | Integer BASIC | Steve Wozniak | BASIC |
| 1977 | FP | John Backus |
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| 1977 | Bourne Shell (sh) | Stephen R. Bourne |
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| 1977 | Commodore BASIC | Jack Tramiel | BASIC |
| 1977 | IDL | David Stern of Research Systems Inc | Fortran |
| 1977 | Standard MUMPS | MUMPS | |
| 1977 | Icon (concept) | Ralph Griswold | SNOBOL |
| 1977 | Red | Benjamin M. Brosgol et al. at Intermetrics for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68, CS-4 |
| 1977 | Blue | John B. Goodenough<ref>
CISA|website=www.us-cert.gov}}</ref><ref> </ref> et al. at SofTech for US Dept of Defense |
ALGOL 68 |
| 1977 | Yellow | Jay Spitzen et al. at SRI International for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68 |
| 1977 | Euclid | Butler Lampson at Xerox PARC, Ric Holt and James Cordy at University of Toronto | |
| 1977 | Applesoft BASIC | Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland | BASIC |
| 1978 | RAPT | Pat Ambler and Robin Popplestone | APT |
| 1978 | C shell | Bill Joy | C |
| 1978 | RPG III | IBM | FARGO, RPG, RPG II |
| 1978 | HAL/S | designed by Intermetrics for NASA | XPL |
| 1978 | Applesoft II BASIC | Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland | Applesoft BASIC |
| 1975 | Irvine Dataflow (implementation) | Arvind and Gostelow, University of California, Irvine | |
| 1978? | MATLAB | Cleve Moler at the University of New Mexico | Fortran |
| 1978? | SMALL | Nevil Brownlee at the University of Auckland | Algol60 |
| 1978 | VisiCalc | Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston marketed by VisiCorp |
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| 1979 | TI BASIC (TI 99/4A) | Texas Instruments | BASIC |
| 1979 | Modula-2 | Niklaus Wirth | Modula, Mesa |
| 1979 | REXX | Mike Cowlishaw at IBM | PL/I, BASIC, EXEC 2 |
| 1979 | AWK | Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, Brian Kernighan | C, SNOBOL |
| 1979 | Icon (implementation) | Ralph Griswold | SNOBOL |
| 1979 | Vulcan dBase-II | Wayne Ratliff |
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| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1980s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ada 80 (MIL-STD-1815) | Jean Ichbiah at CII Honeywell Bull | Green |
| 1980 | C with classes | Bjarne Stroustrup<ref>
</ref> |
C, Simula 67 |
| 1980 | Applesoft III | Apple Computer | Applesoft II BASIC |
| 1980 | Apple III Microsoft BASIC | Microsoft | Microsoft BASIC |
| 1980–81 | CBASIC | Gordon Eubanks | BASIC, Compiler Systems, Digital Research |
| 1980 | Smalltalk-80 | Adele Goldberg at Xerox PARC | Smalltalk-76 |
| 1981 | TI Extended BASIC | Texas Instruments | TI BASIC (TI 99/4A) |
| 1981 | BBC BASIC | Acorn Computers, Sophie Wilson | BASIC |
| 1981 | IBM BASICA | Microsoft | BASIC |
| 1982? | Speakeasy-IV | Stanley Cohen, et al. at Speakeasy Computing Corporation | Speakeasy-3 |
| 1982? | Draco | Chris Gray | Pascal, C, ALGOL 68 |
| 1982 | PostScript | Warnock | InterPress |
| 1982 | Turing | Ric Holt and James Cordy, at University of Toronto | Euclid |
| 1983 | GW-BASIC | Microsoft | IBM BASICA |
| 1983 | Turbo Pascal | Hejlsberg at Borland | Pascal |
| 1983 | Ada 83 (ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A) | Jean Ichbiah at Alsys | Ada 80, Green |
| 1983 | Objective-C | Brad Cox | Smalltalk, C |
| 1983 | C++ | Bjarne Stroustrup | C with Classes |
| 1983 | True BASIC | John George Kemeny, Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College | BASIC |
| 1983 | occam | David May | EPL |
| 1983? | ABAP | SAP AG | COBOL |
| 1983 | KornShell (ksh) | David Korn | sh |
| 1983 | Clascal | Apple Computer | Pascal |
| | 1984 | CLIPPER | Nantucket | dBase |
| 1984 | Common Lisp | Guy L. Steele, Jr. and many others | LISP |
| 1984 | Coq | INRIA | |
| 1984 | RPL | Hewlett-Packard | Forth, Lisp |
| 1984 | Standard ML | ML | |
| 1984 | Redcode | Alexander Dewdney and D.G. Jones | |
| 1984 | OPL | Psion | BASIC |
| 1985 | PARADOX | Borland | dBase |
| 1985 | QuickBASIC | Microsoft | BASIC |
| 1985 | A<ref>
</ref> |
Arthur Whitney | APL |
| 1986 | Clarion | Bruce Barrington | |
| 1986 | CorVision | Cortex | INFORM |
| 1986 | Eiffel | Bertrand Meyer | Simula 67, Ada |
| 1986 | GFA BASIC | Frank Ostrowski | BASIC |
| 1986 | Informix-4GL | Informix | |
| 1986 | LabVIEW | National Instruments | |
| 1986 | Miranda | David Turner at University of Kent | |
| 1986 | Object Pascal | Apple Computer | Pascal |
| 1986 | PROMAL | C | |
| 1986 | Erlang | Joe Armstrong and others in Ericsson | Prolog |
| 1987 | Ada ISO 8652:1987 | ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A unchanged | Ada 83 |
| 1987 | Self (concept) | Sun Microsystems Inc. | Smalltalk |
| 1987 | occam 2 | David May and INMOS | occam |
| 1987 | HyperTalk | Apple Computer |
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| 1987 | Perl | Larry Wall | C, sed, awk, sh |
| 1987 | Oberon | Niklaus Wirth | Modula-2 |
| 1987 | Mathematica (Wolfram Language<!– was named that years later, is the language of the larger system Mathematica–>) | Wolfram Research |
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| 1987 | Turbo Basic | Robert 'Bob' Zale | BASIC/Z |
| 1987 | Clean | Software Technology Research Group of Radboud University Nijmegen |
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| 1988 | Octave | MATLAB | |
| 1988 | Tcl | John Ousterhout | Awk, Lisp |
| 1988 | STOS BASIC | François Lionet and Constantin Sotiropoulos | BASIC |
| 1988 | Actor | Charles Duff, the Whitewater Group | Forth, Smalltalk |
| 1988 | Object REXX | Simon C. Nash | REXX, Smalltalk |
| 1988 | SPARK | Bernard A. Carré | Ada |
| 1988 | A+ | Arthur Whitney | APL, A |
| 1988 | Hamilton C shell | Nicole Hamilton | C shell |
| 1988-1989 | C90 | C90 ISO/IEC 9899:1990 | |
| 1989 | Turbo Pascal OOP | Anders Hejlsberg at Borland | Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal |
| 1989 | Modula-3 | Cardeli, et al. DEC and Olivetti | Modula-2 |
| 1989 | PowerBASIC | Robert 'Bob' Zale | Turbo Basic |
| 1989 | VisSim | Peter Darnell, Visual Solutions | |
| 1989 | LPC | Lars Pensjö | |
| 1989 | Bash | Brian Fox | Bourne shell, C shell, KornShell |
| 1989 | Magik | Arthur Chance, of Smallworld Systems Ltd | Smalltalk |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1990s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Sather | Steve Omohundro | Eiffel |
| 1990 | AMOS BASIC | François Lionet and Constantin Sotiropoulos | STOS BASIC |
| 1990 | AMPL | Robert Fourer, David Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories | |
| 1990 | Object Oberon | H Mössenböck, J Templ, R Griesemer | Oberon |
| 1990 | J | Kenneth E. Iverson, Roger Hui at Iverson Software | APL, FP |
| 1990 | Haskell | Miranda | |
| 1990 | EuLisp | Common Lisp, Scheme | |
| 1990 | Z Shell (zsh) | Paul Falstad at Princeton University | ksh |
| 1990 | SKILL | T. J. Barnes at Cadence Design Systems | Franz Lisp |
| 1991 | GNU E | David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Carey | C++ |
| 1991 | Oberon-2 | Hanspeter Mössenböck, Wirth | Object Oberon |
| 1991 | Oz | Gert Smolka and his students | Prolog |
| 1991 | Q | Albert Gräf | |
| 1991 | Python | Guido van Rossum | ABC, C |
| 1991 | Visual Basic | Alan Cooper, sold to Microsoft | QuickBASIC |
| 1992 | Borland Pascal | Turbo Pascal OOP | |
| 1992 | Dylan | many people at Apple Computer | Common Lisp, Scheme |
| 1992 | S-Lang | John E. Davis | PostScript |
| 1993? | Self (implementation) | Sun Microsystems Inc. | Smalltalk |
| 1993 | Amiga E | Wouter van Oortmerssen | DEX, C, Modula-2 |
| 1993 | Brainfuck | Urban Müller | P'′ |
| 1993 | LiveCode Transcript | HyperTalk | |
| 1993 | AppleScript | Apple Computer | HyperTalk |
| 1993 | K | Arthur Whitney | APL, Lisp |
| 1993 | Lua | Roberto Ierusalimschy et al. at Tecgraf, PUC-Rio | Scheme, SNOBOL, Modula, CLU, C++ |
| 1993 | R | Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka | S |
| 1993 | ZPL | Chamberlain et al. at University of Washington | C |
| 1993 | NewtonScript | Walter Smith | Self, Dylan |
| 1993 | Euphoria | Robert Craig | SNOBOL, AWK, ABC, Icon, Python |
| 1994 | Claire | Yves Caseau | Smalltalk, SETL, OPS5, Lisp, ML, C, LORE, LAURE |
| 1994 | ANSI Common Lisp | Common Lisp | |
| 1994 | RAPID | ABB Group | ARLA |
| 1994 | Pike | Fredrik Hübinette et al. at Linköping University | LPC, C, µLPC |
| 1994 | ANS Forth | Elizabeth Rather, et al. | Forth |
| 1995 | Ada 95 | S. Tucker Taft, et al. at Intermetrics, Inc. | Ada 83 |
| 1995 | Borland Delphi | Anders Hejlsberg at Borland | Borland Pascal |
| 1995 | ColdFusion (CFML) | Allaire | |
| 1995 | Java | James Gosling at Sun Microsystems | C, Simula 67, C++, Smalltalk, Ada 83, Objective-C, Mesa |
| 1995 | LiveScript | Brendan Eich at Netscape | Self, C, Scheme |
| 1995 | Mercury | Zoltan Somogyi at University of Melbourne | Prolog, Hope, Haskell |
| 1995 | PHP | Rasmus Lerdorf | Perl |
| 1995 | Ruby | Yukihiro Matsumoto | Smalltalk, Perl |
| 1995 | JavaScript | Brendan Eich at Netscape | LiveScript |
| 1995 | Racket | Matthew Flatt at Rice University | Scheme, Lisp |
| 1996 | Curl | David Kranz, Steve Ward, Chris Terman at MIT | Lisp, C++, Tcl/Tk, TeX, HTML |
| 1996 | Lasso | Blue World Communications Inc. | |
| 1996 | Perl Data Language (PDL) | Karl Glazebrook, Jarle Brinchmann, Tuomas Lukka, and Christian Soeller | APL, Perl |
| 1996 | VBScript | Microsoft | Visual Basic |
| 1996 | OCaml | INRIA | Caml Light, Standard ML |
| 1996 | NetRexx | Mike Cowlishaw | REXX |
| 1997 | Component Pascal | Oberon microsystems, Inc | Oberon-2 |
| 1997 | E | Mark S. Miller | Joule, Original-E |
| 1997 | Pico | Free University of Brussels | Scheme |
| 1997 | Squeak | Alan Kay, et al. at Apple Computer | Smalltalk-80, Self |
| 1997 | ECMAScript | ECMA TC39-TG1 | JavaScript |
| 1997 | F-Script | Philippe Mougin | Smalltalk, APL, Objective-C |
| 1997 | ISLISP | ISO Standard ISLISP | Common Lisp |
| 1997 | Tea | Jorge Nunes | Java, Scheme, Tcl |
| 1997 | REBOL | Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Technologies | Self, Forth, Lisp, Logo |
| 1998 | Logtalk | Paulo Moura (then at University of Coimbra) | Prolog |
| 1998 | ActionScript | Gary Grossman | ECMAScript |
| 1998 | Standard C++ | ANSI/ISO Standard C++ | C++, Standard C, C |
| 1998 | M2001 | Ronald E. Prather, Trinity University (Texas) |
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| 1998 | PureBasic | Frederic Laboureur, Fantaisie Software | |
| 1998 | UnrealScript | Tim Sweeney at Epic Games | C++, Java |
| 1998 | XSLT (+ XPath) | W3C, James Clark | DSSSL |
| 1998 | Xojo (REALbasic at the time) | Xojo, Inc., Andrew Barry | Visual Basic |
| 1999 | C99 | C99 ISO/IEC 9899:1999 | C90 |
| 1999 | Gambas | Benoît Minisini | Visual Basic, Java |
| 1999 | Game Maker Language (GML) | Mark Overmars | Game Maker |
| 1999 | Harbour | Antonio Linares | dBase, Clipper |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
2000s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Join Java | G Stewart von Itzstein | Java |
| 2000 | DarkBasic | The Game Creators | |
| 2000 | C# | Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft (ECMA) | C, C++, Java, Delphi, Modula-2 |
| 2001 | Joy | Manfred von Thun | FP, Forth |
| 2001 | AspectJ | Gregor Kiczales, Xerox PARC | Java, Common Lisp |
| 2001 | D | Walter Bright, Digital Mars | C, C++, C#, Java |
| 2001 | Processing | Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry | Java, C, C++<ref>
</ref> |
| 2001 | Visual Basic .NET | Microsoft | Visual Basic |
| 2001 | GDScript (GDS) | Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur (OKAM Studio) | Godot |
| 2001 | Shakespeare Programming Language | Jon Åslund and Karl Hasselström. | |
| 2002 | Io | Steve Dekorte | Self, NewtonScript, Lua |
| 2002 | Gosu | Guidewire Software | GScript |
| 2002 | Scratch | Mitchel Resnick, John Maloney, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Tammy Stern, Amon Millner, Jay Silver, and Brian Silverman | Logo, Smalltalk, Squeak, E-Toys, HyperCard, AgentSheets, StarLogo, Tweak |
| 2003 | Nemerle | University of Wrocław | C#, ML, MetaHaskell |
| 2003 | Factor | Slava Pestov | Joy, Forth, Lisp |
| 2003 | Scala | Martin Odersky | Smalltalk, Java, Haskell, Standard ML, OCaml |
| 2003 | C++03 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2003 | C++, Standard C, C |
| 2003 | Squirrel | Alberto Demichelis | Lua |
| 2003 | Boo | Rodrigo B. de Oliveira | Python, C# |
| 2004 | Subtext | Jonathan Edwards |
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| 2004 | Alma-0 | Krzysztof Apt, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica |
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| 2004 | FreeBASIC | Andre Victor | QBasic |
| 2004 | Groovy | James Strachan | Java |
| 2004 | Little b | Aneil Mallavarapu, Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology | Lisp |
| 2005 | Fantom | Brian Frank, Andy Frank | C#, Scala, Ruby, Erlang |
| 2005 | F# | Don Syme, Microsoft Research | OCaml, C#, Haskell |
| 2005 | Haxe | Nicolas Cannasse | ActionScript, OCaml, Java |
| 2005 | Oxygene | RemObjects Software | Object Pascal, C# |
| 2005 | PWCT | Mahmoud Samir Fayed |
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| 2005 | Seed7 | Thomas Mertes |
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| 2006 | Cobra | Chuck Esterbrook | Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C |
| 2006 | Windows PowerShell | Microsoft | C#, ksh, Perl, CL, DCL, SQL |
| 2006 | OptimJ | Ateji | Java |
| 2006 | Fortress | Guy Steele | Scala, ML, Haskell |
| 2006 | Vala | GNOME | C# |
| 2007 | Ada 2005 | Ada Rapporteur Group | Ada 95 |
| 2007 | Agda | Ulf Norell | Coq, Epigram, Haskell |
| 2007 | QB64 | Galleon, QB64Team | QBasic |
| 2007 | Clojure | Rich Hickey | Lisp, ML, Haskell, Erlang |
| 2007 | LOLCODE | Adam Lindsay |
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| 2007 | Oberon-07 | Wirth | Oberon |
| 2007 | Swift (parallel scripting language) | University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory | |
| 2008 | Nim | Andreas Rumpf | Python, Lisp, Object Pascal |
| 2008 | Genie | Jamie McCracken | Python, Boo, D, Object Pascal |
| 2008 | Pure | Albert Gräf | Q |
| 2009 | Chapel | Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc. | HPF, ZPL |
| 2009 | Go | C, Oberon, Limbo, Smalltalk | |
| 2009 | CoffeeScript | Jeremy Ashkenas | JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Haskell |
| 2009 | Idris | Edwin Brady | Haskell, Agda, Coq |
| 2009 | Parasail | S. Tucker Taft, AdaCore | Modula, Ada, Pascal, ML |
| 2009 | Whiley | David J. Pearce | Java, C, Python |
| 2009 | Dafny | K. Rustan M. Leino | Java, Spec# |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
2010s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Rust | Graydon Hoare, Mozilla | Alef, C++, Camlp4, Erlang, Hermes, Limbo, Napier, Napier88, Newsqueak, NIL, Sather, Standard ML |
| 2011 | C11 | C11 ISO/IEC 9899:2011 | C99 |
| 2011 | Ceylon | Gavin King, Red Hat | Java |
| 2011 | Dart | Java, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Go | |
| 2011 | C++11 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2011 | C++, Standard C, C |
| 2011 | Kotlin | JetBrains | Java, Scala, Groovy, C#, Gosu |
| 2011 | Red | Nenad Rakočević | Rebol, Scala, Lua |
| 2011 | Opa | MLstate | OCaml, Erlang, JavaScript |
| 2012 | Elixir | José Valim | Erlang, Ruby, Clojure |
| 2012 | Elm | Evan Czaplicki | Haskell, Standard ML, OCaml, F# |
| 2012 | TypeScript | Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft | JavaScript, CoffeeScript |
| 2012 | Julia | Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Alan Edelman,<!– Leave out Alan? He is left out as “developer”, but included as “designer” in Julia's infobox as Jeff's PhD advisor(?):–> MIT | MATLAB, Lisp,<!–only the parser is implemented by Femtolisp, a Scheme implementation (see: “unsupported” “julia –lisp” that invokes it) the only influence from Lisp/Scheme are Lisp-like macros, redundant to list Scheme. Also Dylan was cut from the list despite its “multiple dispatch”–> C, Fortran, Mathematica<ref>
</ref> (strictly its Wolfram Language), Python, Perl, R, Ruby, Lua<ref> </ref> |
| 2012 | P | Vivek Gupta, Ethan Jackson, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft | |
| 2012 | Ada 2012 | ARA and Ada Europe (ISO/IEC 8652:2012) | Ada 2005, ISO/IEC 8652:1995/Amd 1:2007 |
| 2013 | P4 | P4 Language Consortium (P4.org) | |
| 2013 | PureScript | Phil Freeman | Haskell |
| 2013 | Hopscotch | Hopscotch Technologies | Scratch |
| 2013 | Cuneiform | Jörgen Brandt | Swift (parallel scripting language) |
| 2014 | Crystal | Ary Borenszweig, Manas Technology Solutions | Ruby, C, Rust, Go, C#, Python |
| 2014 | Hack | PHP | |
| 2014 | Swift | Apple Inc. | Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU |
| 2014 | C++14 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2014 | C++, Standard C, C |
| 2015 | Raku | Larry Wall, The Rakudo Team | Perl, Haskell, Python, Ruby |
| 2015 | Zig | Andrew Kelley | C, C++, LLVM IR, Go, Rust |
| 2016 | Reason | Jordan Walke | JavaScript, OCaml<ref>
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| 2016 | Ring | Mahmoud Samir Fayed | Lua, Python, Ruby, C, C#, BASIC, QML, xBase, Supernova<ref name=“The Ring programming language and other languages”>
</ref> |
| 2017 | C++17 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2017 | C++, Standard C, C |
| 2017 | Ballerina | WSO2, Open Source<ref>
</ref> |
Java, Javascript, Go, Rust, C# |
| 2017 | Q# | Microsoft | C#, F#, Python |
| 2018 | C17 | ISO/IEC 9899:2018 | C11 |
| 2018 | Fortran 2018 | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N2150:2018 | Fortran 2008 |
| 2019 | Bosque | Mark Marron, Microsoft | JavaScript, TypeScript, ML |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
2020s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | C++20 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2020 | C++, Standard C, C |
| 2021 | Microsoft Power Fx | Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger, Darryl Rubin, Microsoft | Excel formulas |
| 2022 | Carbon | C++ | |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
See also
External links
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