This is a record of notable programming languages, by decade.
1790s
| Year | Name | Developer | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1790[1] | Jacquard loom (concept)[1] | Joseph Marie Jacquard |
1800s
| Year | Name | Developer | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1801[2] | Jacquard machine (implementation)[2] | Joseph Marie Jacquard |
1830s
| Year | Name | Developer | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1837[3] | BAB L1[3] | Charles Babbage | Jacquard[4] |
1840s
| Year | Name | Developer | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1843[4][5] | Note G[6][4] | Ada Lovelace |
1870s
| Year | Name | Developer | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1879 | Begriffsschrift[7] | Gottlob Frege |
1940s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943–45/46[8] | Plankalkül | Konrad Zuse | |
| 1943–46 | ENIAC coding system | John von Neumann, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, and Herman Goldstine after Alan Turing | |
| 1946 | ENIAC Short Code | Richard Clippinger and John von Neumann after Alan Turing | |
| 1947–52 | ARC/Birkbeck Assembler | Kathleen Booth | ENIAC Short Code[9] |
| 1948 | Plankalkül (year of publication) | Konrad Zuse | |
| 1949 | EDSAC Initial Orders | David Wheeler | ENIAC coding system |
| Short Code (originally known as Brief 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 (for UNIVAC I) | William F. Schmitt | Short Code |
| 1951 | Superplan | Heinz Rutishauser | Plankalkül |
| ALGAE | Edward A. Voorhees, Karl Balke | ||
| Intermediate Programming Language | Arthur Burks | Short Code | |
| Boehm unnamed coding system | Corrado Böhm | CPC Coding scheme | |
| Klammerausdrücke | Konrad Zuse | Plankalkül | |
| Stanislaus (Notation) | Fritz Bauer | ||
| Sort Merge Generator | Betty Holberton | ||
| 1952 | Short Code (for UNIVAC II) | Albert B. Tonik,[10] J. R. Logan | Short Code (for UNIVAC I) |
| A-0 | Grace Hopper | Short Code | |
| Glennie Autocode | Alick Glennie | CPC Coding scheme | |
| Operator programming | Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov with the participation Kateryna Yushchenko | MESM | |
| Editing Generator | Milly Koss | SORT/MERGE | |
| COMPOOL | RAND/SDC | ||
| 1953 | Speedcoding | John W. Backus | |
| READ/PRINT | Don Harroff, James Fishman, George Ryckman | ||
| 1954 | Laning and Zierler system | J. Halcombe Laning, Niel Zierler, Adams at MIT Project Whirlwind | |
| Mark I Autocode | Tony Brooker | Glennie Autocode | |
| ARITH-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 | |
| MATH-MATIC | Team led by Charles Katz | ||
| MATRIX MATH | H G Kahrimanian | ||
| IPL I (concept) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | ||
| 1954–55 | FORTRAN (concept) | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | Speedcoding |
| 1955 | Address programming language | Kateryna Yushchenko | Operator programming |
| FLOW-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 | |
| BACAIC | M. Grems, R. Porter | ||
| PACT I | SHARE | FORTRAN, A-2 | |
| Freiburger Code[11][12] | University of Freiburg | ||
| IBM | |||
| 1955–56 | Sequentielle Formelübersetzung | Fritz Bauer, Karl Samelson | Boehm |
| IT | Team led by Alan Perlis | Laning and Zierler | |
| 1956–58 | LISP (concept) | John McCarthy | IPL |
| 1957 | COMTRAN | Bob Bemer | FLOW-MATIC |
| GEORGE | Charles Leonard Hamblin | ||
| FORTRAN I (implementation) | John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN | |
| COMIT (concept) | Victor Yngve | ||
| 1957–58 | UNICODE | Remington Rand UNIVAC | MATH-MATIC |
| 1958 | FORTRAN II | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN I |
| ALGOL 58 (IAL) | ACM/GAMM | FORTRAN, IT, Sequentielle Formelübersetzung | |
| IPL II (implementation) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL I | |
| IPL V | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL II | |
| 1959 | APT | Douglas T. Ross | |
| FACT | Fletcher R. Jones, Roy Nutt, Robert L. Patrick | ||
| COBOL (concept) | The CODASYL Committee | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN, FACT | |
| JOVIAL | Jules Schwartz at SDC | ALGOL 58 | |
| LISP (implementation) | Steve Russell | IPL | |
| MAD – Michigan Algorithm Decoder | Bruce Arden, Bernard Galler, Robert M. Graham | ALGOL 58 | |
| TRAC (concept) | Calvin Mooers | ||
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
1960s
1970s
1980s
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, Clean | |
| 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, Niklaus Wirth | Object Oberon |
| 1991 | Oz | Gert Smolka and his students | Prolog |
| 1991 | Q | Albert Gräf | |
| 1991 | Python | Guido van Rossum | Perl, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | CSS | Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos | SGML |
| 1996 | Curl | David Kranz, Steve Ward, Chris Terman at MIT | Lisp, C++, Tcl/Tk, TeX, HTML |
| 1996 | Lasso | Blue World Communications | |
| 1996 | NetRexx | Mike Cowlishaw | REXX |
| 1996 | OCaml | INRIA | Caml Light, Standard ML |
| 1996 | Perl Data Language (PDL) | Karl Glazebrook, Jarle Brinchmann, Tuomas Lukka, and Christian Soeller | APL, Perl |
| 1996 | Pure Data | Miller Puckette | Max |
| 1996 | VBScript | Microsoft | Visual Basic |
| 1997 | Component Pascal | Oberon Microsystems | 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 | PureBasic | Frederic Laboureur, Fantaisie Software | |
| 1998 | UnrealScript | Tim Sweeney at Epic Games | C++, Java |
| 1998 | XSLT (+ XPath) | W3C, James Clark | DSSSL |
| 1998 | Free Pascal + Lazarus | Florian Paul Klämpfl, Michael van Canneyt, Lazarus and Free Pascal Team | Object Pascal, Borland Turbo Pascal, Delphi. |
| 1998 | Xojo (REALbasic at the time) | Xojo, 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 |
| 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++[18] |
| 2001 | Visual Basic .NET | Microsoft | Visual Basic |
| 2001 | GDScript (GDS) | Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur (OKAM Studio) | Godot |
| 2001 | Shakespeare Programming Language | Jon Åslund, 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 | Nix | Eelco Dolstra | Miranda/SASL, Haskell |
| 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 | COBOL 2002 | ISO/IEC 1989:2002 | COBOL 1985 |
| 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 | |
| 2004 | Alma-0 | Krzysztof Apt, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica | |
| 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 | Seed7 | Thomas Mertes | |
| 2005 | fish | Thomas Mertes | |
| 2005 | HolyC | Terry A. Davis | C, C++ |
| 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 L. Steele Jr. | Scala, ML, Haskell |
| 2006 | Vala | GNOME | C# |
| 2007 | Ada 2005 | Ada Rapporteur Group | Ada 95 |
| 2007 | Agda | Ulf Norell | Rocq, Epigram, Haskell |
| 2007 | QB64 | Galleon, QB64Team | QBasic |
| 2007 | Clojure | Rich Hickey | Lisp, ML, Haskell, Erlang |
| 2007 | LOLCODE | Adam Lindsay | |
| 2007 | Oberon-07 | Niklaus Wirth | Oberon |
| 2007 | Swift (parallel scripting language) | University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory | |
| 2008 | Nim | Andreas Rumpf | Python, Lisp, 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, Rocq |
| 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
2020s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | C++20 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2020 | C++17, Standard C, C |
| 2020 | ReScript | Bloomberg L.P. | Reason, JavaScript |
| 2021 | Microsoft Power Fx | Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger, Darryl Rubin, Microsoft | Excel formulas |
| 2021 | ArkTS | Wang Chenglu, Huawei | TypeScript, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C#, F#, Java, ActionScript, AtScript, AssemblyScript |
| 2022 | Carbon (concept) | C++, Rust, Swift, Zig, Kotlin, Haskell | |
| 2023 | Mojo | Modular | Python, Rust, Cython, C, C++, CUDA, Swift, Zig |
| 2023 | Ada 2023 | ISO/IEC 8652:2023[24] | Ada 2012 / ISO/IEC 8652:2012 |
| 2023 | COBOL 2023 | ISO/IEC 1989:2023 | COBOL 2014 / ISO/IEC 1989:2014 |
| 2023 | Fortran 2023 | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 2023 | Fortran 2018 |
| 2024 | C++23 | C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2024 | C++20, Standard C, C |
| 2024 | C23 | ISO/IEC 9899:2024 | C17 |
| 2024 | Cangjie | Xinyu Feng, Huawei | ArkTS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, C#, F#, Java, C++, Go, Python |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, company | Predecessor(s) |
See also
- History of computing hardware
- History of programming languages
- Programming language
- Timeline of computing
- Timeline of programming language theory
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