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Predecessor(s) YEAR PRODUCT -- Developer, Company
* 1840~ FIRST PROGRAM -- Ada Lovelace * 1945 Plankalkül -- Konrad Zuse
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* 1952 A-0 -- Grace Hopper 1954 Mark I Autocode -- Tony Brooker[?] A-0 1954 ARITH-MATIC -- Grace Hopper A-0 1955 MATH-MATIC -- Grace Hopper A-0 1955 FLOW-MATIC -- Grace Hopper A-0 1955 FORTRAN -- Backus FLOW-MATIC 1957 COMTRAN[?] -- Bob Bemer[?] ( * 1957 General Problem Solver[?] -- Newell ) FORTRAN 1958 FORTRAN II[?] -- Backus FORTRAN 1958 Algol 58 * 1959 LISP McCarthy
FLOW-MATIC COMTRAN 1960 COBOL The Codasyl[?]Committee ALGOL 1960 Algol 60 ALGOL 1960 JOSS FORTRAN II 1962 FORTRAN IV * 1962 APL -- Iverson 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 1 FORTRAN II, JOSS 1964 BASIC -- Kemeney and Kurtz FORTRAN II 1966 FORTRAN IV LISP 1966 ISWIM Peter J. Landin[?] ALGOL60 1966 CORAL66 Real Time version of Algol 60 CPL 1967 BCPL -- Martin 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 -- Chuck Moore[?] (first paper, 1970)
POP-1 1970 POP-2[?] ALGOL60 1971 Pascal -- Niklaus Wirth, Jensen Simula67 1972 SMALLTALK Environment -- SMALLTALK[?]--Digitalk B BCPL 1972 C -- Dennis Ritchie * 1973 PROLOG -- Alain Colmeraurer[?] BASIC 1973 COMAL LISP 1975 Scheme -- Gerald Jay Sussman, Guy Lewis Steele Jr.[?] BASIC 1975 Altair BASIC -- Bill Gates, Steve Allen C FORTRAN 1976 RATFOR -- Brian Kernighan MUMPS 1977 X11.1 ANSI Standard MUMPS
FORTRAN IV 1978 FORTRAN77
( * 1978 VISICALC -- Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston)
C SNOBOL 1979 Awk -- Al Aho[?], Brian Kernighan
( * 1979 VULCAN DBASE-II -- Ratliff )
Algol68 1979 Green -- Jean Ichbiah et al., United States Department of Defense
C Simula67 1980 C with Classes -- Bjarne Stroustrup Simula67 1980 SMALLTALK[?]-80 -- Digitalk Green 1983 Ada -- US Dept of Defense C with Classes 1983 C++ -- Bjarne Stroustrup Pascal 1983 Turbo Pascal -- Anders Hejlsberg * 1984 Standard ML[?] ML = Meta-Language 1977MUMPS 1985 1984 MUMPS ( dBase 1984 CLIPPER[?] -- Nantucket ) ( dBase 1985 PARADOX[?] -- Borland ) Simula67 1986 Eiffel -- Meyer ( * 1987 HyperCard -- Apple ) ( * 1987 SQL-1 ) Awk 1987 Perl -- Larry Wall MATLAB 1988 Octave dBase-III 1988 dBaseIV Awk Lisp 1988 Tcl -- John Ousterhout 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
1990 Haskell 1984MUMPS 1990 1990 MUMPS 1991 Python -- Guido van Rossum ( SQL-1 1992 SQL-2 ) Turbo-Pascal OOP 1992 Borland Pascal[?] 1993 Brainfuck -- Urban Mueller Perl Smalltalk 1993 Ruby 1993 Lua Ada 83 1995 Ada 95 -- ISO Borland Pascal 1995 Delphi(1) -- Borland C++ Internet OOP 1995 Java -- Sun Microsystems 1990MUMPS 1995 1995 MUMPS Standard ML,84 1997 SML'97 C++ 1998 C++98 -- ANSI/ISO Standard C++
2000 Joy -- Manfred von Thun DELPHI(5) 2001 KYLIX -- Borland Whitespace 2003 Whitespace -- Edwin Brady and Chris Morris
Things with unknown or questionable dates:
* 197? sh (Bourne Shell) -- Bourne
sh 19?? ksh (Korn Shell) -- Dave Korn
ksh 199? zsh (Z Shell)
HyperCard 199? AppleScript -- Apple
* 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 C# -- Microsoft
2003 Rikstation[?]
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