Saturday,26th July 2008 UTC

Timeline of programming languages: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a chronological list of programming languages.

Other listings of programming languages are:

Predecessor(s)	Year	Product	developer, company
Pre 1950
*	~1840	FIRST PROGRAM	Ada Lovelace
*	1945	Plankalkül	Konrad Zuse
top 1950s
*	1952	A-0	Grace Hopper
*	1954	Mark I Autocode	Tony Brooker
A-0	~1954	Fortran (First program September 20th 1954)	John W. Backus
A-0	1954	ARITH-MATIC	Grace Hopper
A-0	1954	MATH-MATIC	Grace Hopper
A-0	1955	FLOW-MATIC	Grace Hopper
*	1956	Information Processing Language (IPL)	Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert Simon
FLOW-MATIC	1957	COMTRAN	Bob Bemer
FORTRAN	1958	FORTRAN II	John W. Backus
FORTRAN	1958	Algol 58	??
IPL	1959	LISP	John McCarthy
top 1960s
FLOW-MATIC COMTRAN	1960	COBOL	The Codasyl Committee
ALGOL	1960	ALGOL 60
ALGOL	1960	JOSS
FORTRAN II	1962	FORTRAN IV
*	1962	APL	Iverson
ALGOL58	1962	MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder)	Arden, et. al.
ALGOL60	1962	Simula
FORTRAN II	1962	SNOBOL	Griswold, et al.
ALGOL60	1963	CPL	Barron, Strachey, et al.
SNOBOL	1962	SNOBOL3	Griswold, et al.
CPL LISP	1964	COWSEL	Burstall, Popplestone
ALGOL60	1964	PL/I	IBM
FORTRAN II, JOSS	1964	BASIC	Kemeny and Kurtz
1964	TRAC	Mooers (work started in 1959)
FORTRAN II	1966	FORTRAN IV
LISP	1966	ISWIM	Landin
ALGOL60	1966	CORAL66 Real Time version of Algol 60
CPL	1967	BCPL	Richards
Fortran LISP	1967	MUMPS	Massachusetts General Hospital
Simula	1967	Simula67
SNOBOL3	1967	SNOBOL4	Griswold, et al.
Algol60	1968	ALGOL 68	Wijngaarten, et al.
COWSEL	1968	POP-1	Burstall, Popplestone
1968	Forth	Moore (first paper, 1970)
Lisp	1968	Logo	Papert
top 1970s
POP-1	1970	POP-2
ALGOL60	1971	Pascal	Wirth, Jensen
Simula67	1972	Smalltalk Environment	Digitalk
B BCPL	1972	C	Ritchie
*	1972	INTERCAL
*	1972	Prolog	Colmerauer
Pascal BASIC	1973	COMAL	Christensen, Løfstedt
BASIC	1974	GRASS	DeFanti
LISP	1975	Scheme	Sussman, Steele
BASIC	1975	Altair BASIC	Gates, Allen
C FORTRAN	1976	Ratfor	Kernighan
*	1977	sh (Bourne Shell)	Bourne
MUMPS	1977	X11.1 ANSI Standard MUMPS
FORTRAN IV	1978	FORTRAN77
*	1978	VISICALC	Bricklin, Frankston)
PL/I, BASIC, EXEC 2	1979	REXX	Cowlishaw 20 March
C SNOBOL	1979	Awk	Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
*	1979	VULCAN DBASE-II	Ratliff
Algol68	1979	Green	Ichbiah et al., US Dept of Defense
top 1980s
C Simula67	1980	"C with Classes"	Stroustrup
Simula67	1980	Smalltalk-80	Digitalk
Green	1983	Ada	US Dept of Defense
C with Classes	1983	C++	Stroustrup
Pascal	1983	Turbo Pascal	Hejlsberg
BASIC	1983	True BASIC	Kemeny and Kurtz
*	1984	Standard ML (Standard Meta-Language)
dBase	1984	CLIPPER	Nantucket
1977MUMPS	1985	1984 MUMPS
dBase	1985	PARADOX	Borland
Interpress	1985	PostScript	Warnock
BASIC	1985	QuickBASIC	Microsoft
1986	LabVIEW	National Instruments
Simula67	1986	Eiffel	Meyer
4GL	1986	Informix-4GL	Informix
*	1987	HyperTalk	Apple
*	1987	SQL-1
Awk	1987	Perl	Wall
MATLAB	1988	Octave
dBase-III	1988	dBaseIV
Awk Lisp	1988	Tcl	Ousterhout
REXX	1988	Object REXX	Simon Nash
Turbo-Pascal	1989	Turbo Pascal OOP	Borland
C	1989	Standard C	ANSI X3.159-1989 (adopted by ISO in 1990)
Pascal Modula-II	1989	OBERON	Wirth
top 1990s
APL FP FL	1990	J	Iverson, Hui
1990	Haskell
1984MUMPS	1990	1990 MUMPS
1991	Python	Van Rossum
1991	Q
QuickBASIC	1991	Visual Basic	Alan Cooper, Microsoft
SQL-1	1992	SQL-2
Turbo Pascal OOP	1992	Borland Pascal
Forth	1993	FALSE	Oortmerrsen
FALSE	1993	Brainfuck	Mueller
HyperTalk	1993	Revolution
HyperCard	1993	AppleScript	Apple
APL LISP	1993	K	Whitney
Smalltalk Perl	1993	Ruby
1993	Lua
1993	ZPL	Chamberlain et al.
Ada 83	1995	Ada 95	ISO
Borland Pascal	1995	Delphi(1)	Borland
1995	Java	Sun Microsystems
1990MUMPS	1995	1995 MUMPS
REXX	1996	NetRexx	Cowlishaw
Java	1997	JavaScript	Brendan Eich, Netscape
Standard ML,84	1997	SML'97
PHP 3	1997	PHP
Scheme	1997	Pico	Free University of Brussels
C++	1998	C++98	ANSI/ISO Standard C++
1998	Erlang programming language	Open Source Erlang from Ericsson
top 2000s
2000	Joy	von Thun
C C++	2000	D	Walter Bright, Digital Mars
C C++ Java	2000	C#	Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft, ECMA
DELPHI(5)	2001	KYLIX	Borland
Whitespace	2003	Whitespace	Brady and Morris
Perl C++	2003	S2
C# ML MetaHaskell	2003	Nemerle	University of Wroclaw
J,FL,K	2003	NGL	Herrera
Joy, FORTH, Lisp	2003	Factor	Slava Pestov
top Programming languages with unknown or questionable dates
19??	TUTOR	Tenczar (for Plato)
sh	19??	ksh (Korn Shell)	Korn
1960s?	IITRAN
ksh	199?	zsh (Z Shell)
*	1990	Self	Sun Microsystems Inc.
Self Java	199?	LiveScript	Brendan Eich, Netscape (Self inspired, made for Java interactions)
LiveScript	1995	JavaScript	Netscape
JavaScript	1997	ECMAScript	ECMA TC39-TG1
2003	Rikstation

top

Legend

( Entry ) means not a universal programming language

* <YEAR> means no direct predecessor / unique language

Find more facts

Further reference

Remember what Timeline of programming languages means:

Other sources

Search for Timeline of programming languages information on: amazon.com

Your reference for information, definition

http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Timeline-of-programming-languages.html

Licensing information:
This article uses material from Wikipedia (credits) and is made available under the terms of the GNU FDL (copy).
Image licensing information is accessible by clicking the image.

Welcome, guest!

You are not logged in