Programming Languages

Timeline

• 1957 FORTRAN
• 1959 COBOL
• 1960 Lisp
• 1964 BASIC
• 1970 Pascal
• 1972 Smalltalk
• 1972 C
• 1975 Scheme (lisp)
• 1977 AWK
• 1982 PostScript
• 1984 CommonLisp
• 1985 C++
• 1986 Erlang
• 1987 HyperTalk
• 1987 Perl
• 1989 Bash
• 1990 Haskell
• 1990 Z shell
• 1991 HTML
• 1991 Python
• 1993 R
• 1993 Lua
• 1995 PHP
• 1995 JavaScript (now ECMAScript)
• 1995 Java
• 1995 Ruby
• 1996 CSS
• 1996 OCaml
• 1997 Squeak (lisp)
• 2000 C#
• 2004 Scala
• 2005 F#
• 2006 Windows Powershell
• 2007 Clojure (lisp)
• 2009 Go
• 2011 Kotlin
• 2012 TypeScript
• 2012 Julia
• 2012 Elixir
• 2014 Swift
• 2015 Rust
• 2015 Raku (Perl 6)
• 2016 Zig

Usage

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