编程语言发展的编年史

• 1951 – Regional Assembly Language
• 1952 – Autocode
• 1954 – IPL (LISP语言的祖先)
• 1955 – FLOW-MATIC (COBOL语言的祖先)
• 1957 – FORTRAN (第一个编译型语言)
• 1957 – COMTRAN (COBOL语言的祖先)
• 1958 – LISP
• 1958 – ALGOL 58
• 1959 – FACT (COBOL语言的祖先)
• 1959 – COBOL
• 1959 – RPG
• 1962 – APL
• 1962 – Simula
• 1962 – SNOBOL
• 1963 – CPL (C语言的祖先)
• 1964 – BASIC
• 1964 – PL/I
• 1966 – JOSS
• 1967 – BCPL (C语言的祖先)
• 1968 – Logo
• 1969 – B (C语言的祖先)
• 1970 – Pascal
• 1970 – Forth
• 1972 – C
• 1972 – Smalltalk
• 1972 – Prolog
• 1973 – ML
• 1975 – Scheme
• 1978 – SQL
• 1980 – C++ (既有类的C语言，更名于1983年7月)
• 1983 – Ada
• 1984 – Common Lisp
• 1984 – MATLAB
• 1985 – Eiffel
• 1986 – Objective-C
• 1986 – Erlang
• 1987 – Perl
• 1988 – Tcl
• 1988 – Mathematica
• 1989 – FL
• 1990 – Haskell
• 1991 – Python
• 1991 – Visual Basic
• 1993 – Ruby
• 1993 – Lua
• 1994 – CLOS (ANSI Common Lisp的一部分)
• 1995 – Java
• 1995 – Delphi (Object Pascal)
• 1995 – JavaScript
• 1995 – PHP
• 1996 – WebDNA
• 1997 – Rebol
• 1999 – D
• 2000 – ActionScript
• 2001 – C#
• 2001 – Visual Basic .NET
• 2002 – F#
• 2003 – Groovy
• 2003 – Scala
• 2007 – Clojure
• 2009 – Go
• 2011 – Dart