Timeline of programming languages
This is a record of notable programming languages, by decade.
Programming languagelists
Alphabetical
Categorical
Generational
programming languages
Jacquard machine
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Begriffsschrift
Gottlob Frege
Plankalkül
Konrad Zuse
ENIAC coding system
John von Neumann
John Mauchly
J. Presper Eckert
Herman Goldstine
Alan Turing
Kay McNulty
Betty Jennings
Betty Snyder
Marlyn Meltzer
Fran Bilas
Ruth Lichterman
Kathleen Booth
David Wheeler
Short Code
Superplan
Heinz Rutishauser
Arthur Burks
Corrado Böhm
Fritz Bauer
Sort Merge Generator
Betty Holberton
Grace Hopper
Glennie Autocode
Alick Glennie
Kateryna Yushchenko
Speedcoding
John W. Backus
Laning and Zierler system
Project Whirlwind
Mark I Autocode
Tony Brooker
FORTRAN
ARITH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC
Allen Newell
Cliff Shaw
Herbert A. Simon
Address programming language
FLOW-MATIC
PACT I
University of Freiburg
Alan Perlis
IPL II
John McCarthy
COMTRAN
Bob Bemer
GEORGE
Charles Leonard Hamblin
FORTRAN I
Victor Yngve
ALGOL 58
Douglas T. Ross
Fletcher R. Jones
Roy Nutt
CODASYL
JOVIAL
Jules Schwartz
Steve Russell
MAD – Michigan Algorithm Decoder
Bruce Arden
Bernard Galler
Robert M. Graham
Calvin Mooers
ALGOL 60
Kenneth E. Iverson
Simula
Ole-Johan Dahl
SNOBOL
Ralph Griswold
Combined Programming Language
Christopher Strachey
Griswold
ALGOL 68
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
COWSEL
Rod Burstall
Robin Popplestone
Basic Assembly Language
John George Kemeny
Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Dartmouth College
IBM RPG
Mark-IV
Informatics
Speakeasy-2
Argonne National Laboratory
P′′
IITRAN
RPG II
University of Michigan
TELCOMP
Atlas Autocode
Manchester University
Autocode
Niklaus Wirth
JOSS II
ALGOL W
C. A. R. Hoare
FORTRAN 66
John Backus
Peter J. Landin
Martin Richards
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristen Nygaard
Norsk Regnesentral
Interlisp
RWTH Aachen University
TU Berlin
University of California, Santa Cruz
J. J. Horning
Stanford University
UNESCO
Barry J. Mailloux
John E. L. Peck