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The period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s brought a major flowering of programming languages. Most of the major language paradigms now in use were invented in this period:

* '''[[Simula programming language|Simula]]''', invented in the late 1960s by [[Kristen Nygaard|Nygaard]] and [[Ole-Johan Dahl|Dahl]] as a superset of Algol 60, was the first language designed to support [[object-oriented programming]]. [[Smalltalk programming language|Smalltalk]] (mid 1970s) provided a complete ground-up design of an object-oriented language.

* '''[[C programming language|C]]''', an early [[systems programming]] language, was developed by [[Dennis Ritchie]] and [[Ken Thompson (computer programmer)|Ken Thompson]] at [[Bell Labs]] between [[1969]] and [[1973]].

* '''[[Prolog programming language|Prolog]]''', designed in [[1972]] by [[Alain Colmerauer|Colmerauer]], [[Phillipe Roussel|Roussel]], and [[Robert Kowalski|Kowalski]], was the first [[logic programming]] language.

* '''[[ML programming language|ML]]''' built a polymorphic type system (invented by [[Robin Milner]] in [[1978]]) on top of Lisp, pioneering [[static typing|statically typed]] [[functional programming]] languages.