This list of major programming languages (by year of first introduction) is the skeleton of a proposed article on this topic.
- 1943 - Plankalkül (Konrad Zuse)
- 1943 - ENIAC coding system]]
- 1949 - C-10
- 1951 - Regional Assembly Language
- 1952 - Autocode
- 1954 - FORTRAN
- 1958 - LISP
- 1958 - ALGOL
- 1959 - COBOL
- 1962 - APL
- 1962 - Simula
- 1964 - BASIC
- 1964 - PL/I
- 1970 - Pascal
- 1972 - C
- 1972 - Smalltalk
- 1972 - Prolog
- 1973 - ML
- 1978 - SQL
- 1983 - Ada
- 1983 - C++
- 1985 - Eiffel
- 1987 - Perl
- 1989 - FL (Backus)
- 1990 - Haskell
- 1990 - Python
- 1991 - Java
- 1993 - Ruby
- 2000 - C#
See also
External links
- The History of Programing Languages by Diarmuid Pigott
- The History of Computer Programming Languages by Andrew Ferguson.
- Byte: A Brief History of Programming Languages from 1946 to 1996.
- History of Programming Languages by Com S 541 class of 1997.
- The History of Programming Languages by Fred Armbruster et al, covering birth, concept to internet languages.
- History and Comparison of Programming Languages compares language features for comments, labels, literals and parentheses.
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