History of programming languages

This list of major programming languages (by year of first introduction) is the skeleton of a proposed article on this topic.

• Machine language
• Assembly language
• 1945 - Plankalkül (Konrad Zuse)
• 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

• Timeline of programming languages.

External links

• 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.