History of Programming Language

History of Programming Language

1940s:

1943 - Plankalkül (Konrad Zuse), designed, but unimplemented for a half-century

1943 - ENIAC, Electric Numerical Integrator And Computer, machine-specific codeset appearing in 1948. 

1949 - 1954 — a series of machine-specific mnemonic instruction sets, like ENIAC's, beginning in 1949 with C-10 for BINAC (which later evolved into UNIVAC).Each codeset, or instruction set, was tailored to a specific manufacturer.

1950-1967s:

1951 - Regional Assembly Language

1952 - Autocode

1954 - IPL (forerunner to LISP)

1955 - FLOW-MATIC (forerunner to COBOL)

1957 - FORTRAN (First compiler)

1957 - COMTRAN (forerunner to COBOL)

1958 - LISP

1958 - ALGOL 58

1959 - FACT (forerunner to COBOL)

1959 - COBOL

1959 - RPG

1962 - APL

1962 - Simula

1962 - SNOBOL

1963 - CPL (forerunner to C)

1964 - BASIC

1964 - PL/I

1966 - JOSS

1967 - BCPL (forerunner to C)

1968-1979:

1968 - Logo

1969 - B (forerunner to C)

1970 - Pascal

1970 - Forth

1972 - C (Dennis Ritche)

1972 - Smalltalk

1972 - Prolog

1973 - ML

1975 - Scheme

1978 - SQL (initially only a query language, later extended with programming constructs)

1980s:

1980 - C++ (as C with classes, name changed in July 1983)

1983 - Ada

1984 - Common Lisp

1984 - MATLAB

1985 - Eiffel

1986 - Objective-C

1986 - Erlang

1987 - Perl

1988 - Tcl

1988 - Mathematica

1989 - FL (Backus);

1990s:

1990 - Haskell

1991 - Python

1991 - Visual Basic

1993 - Ruby

1993 - Lua

1994 - CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)

1995 - Java (1991-1992 its name oak)

1995 - Delphi (Object Pascal)

1995 - JavaScript

1995 - PHP

1996 - WebDNA

1997 - Rebol

1999 - D

2000-current era:

2000 - ActionScript

2001 - C#

2001 - Visual Basic .NET

2002 - F#

2003 - Groovy

2003 - Scala

2003 - Factor

2007 - Clojure

2009 - Go

2011 - Dart.....