Computer Languages History

Computer Languages Timeline

Below, you can see the preview of the Computer Languages History (move on the white zone to get a bigger image):

If you want to print this timeline, you can freely download one of the following PDF files:


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There is only 50 languages listed in my chart, if you don't find "your" language, see The Language List of Bill Kinnersley (he has listed more than 2500 languages).

Here is the ChangeLog of this history.

Note: I have now a page where I explain how I build this chart.

	Some useful links
	History of programming languages on Wikipedia ABC A Short Introduction to the ABC Language Ada Ada 95 Ada Home Page AdaPower Special Interest Group on Ada Ada Information Clearinghouse ALGOL The ALGOL Programming Language AWK The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger APL Apl Language APL B The Programming Language B (abstract) Users' Reference to B by Ken Thompson BASIC The Basic Archives Visual Basic Instinct Visual Basic & Visual Basic .NET Resources True BASIC REALbasic BCPL BCPL Reference Manual by Martin Richards C The Development of the C Language by Dennis Ritchie Very early C compilers and language by Dennis Ritchie The C Programming Language (book) Programming languages - C ANSI by ISO/IEC (draft) C Programming Course C++ The C++ Programming Language (book) C and C++: Siblings (pdf) by Bjarne Stroustrup C++0x - the next ISO C++ standard by Bjarne Stroustrup C# Visual C# Language by Microsoft. Caml The Caml language Objective Caml The Objective-Caml system CLU CLU Home Page COBOL IBM COBOL family COBOL Portal TinyCOBOL COBOL User Groups - COBUG CORAL Coral66 Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language Coral 66 Specification for Compilers (pdf) CPL Combined Programming Language (Wikipedia) Delphi Delphi 2005 by Borland Pascal and Delphi A brief history of Borland's Delphi Delphi Treff: Delphi versions (german) Eiffel Eiffel EiffelStudio by Eiffel Software Visual Eiffel by Object Tools SmartEiffel EiffelZone Flow-Matic Flow-Matic and Cobol Forth Forth Interest Group Home Page Fortran User notes on Fortran programming Fortran 2000 draft Fortran 2003 JTC1/SC22/WG5 Haskell Haskell Home Page Icon The Icon Programming Language Icon History of the Icon programming language Unicon, the Unified Extended Dialect of Icon J J software A management perspective of the "J" programming language Java Java by Sun Microsystems Java Technology: an early history Programming Languages for the Java Virtual Machine James Gosling's home page JavaScript Cmm History by Nombas JavaScript Language Resources from Mozilla Standard ECMA-262 Lisp The Association of Lisp Users An Introduction and Tutorial for Common Lisp Mainsail Mainsail from Xidak. Mainsail Implementation Overview by Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory. M (MUMPS) M technologies M[UMPS] Development Committee What is M Technology? ML Standard ML Standard ML '97 Modula Modula-2 Modula-3 Home Page Modula-2 ISO/IEC Oberon A Brief History of Oberon A Description of the Oberon-2 Language The Programming Language Oberon-2 Oberon Language Genealogy Tree Objective-C Objective-C Objective-C FAQ Introduction to The Objective-C Programming Language by Apple Objective-C: Links, Resources, Stuff Pascal ISO Pascal (document) Pascal and Delphi Perl Perl Home Page Perl Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor PL/I Multics PL/I IBM PL/I family by IBM Plankalkül Plankalkül PostScript PostScript level 3 by Adobe PostScript GhostScript PDF GhostScript Home Page Prolog Prolog Programming Language The Prolog Language Python Python Home Page Rexx IBM REXX Family by IBM The Rexx Language Association Ruby Ruby Home Page Ruby programming language (Wikipedia) Ruby - doc Sail Sail (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language) Sather Sather History Sather GNU Sather Scheme Scheme by MIT The Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (in PostScript) Schemers Home Page SCM Self Self Home Page from Sun Sh The Traditional Bourne Shell Family by Sven Mascheck Korn Shell by David Korn Bash from GNU Zsh Simula Simula by Jan Rune Holmevik Smalltalk Smalltalk Home Page Smalltalk FAQ The Early History of Smalltalk The Smalltalk Industry Council web site VisualAge Smalltalk from IBM VisualWorks from Cincom The history of Squeak ANSI Smalltalk SNOBOL Snobol4 Resources by Phil Budne Introduction to SNOBOL Programming Language by Mohammad Noman Hameed Snobol4 Tcl/Tk Tcl/Tk Information

	Other links on same subject
	Computer Languages History on Google The Language List (about 2500 computer languages) by Bill Kinnersley. An interactive historical roster of computer languages by Diarmuid Pigott.. Programming languages by The Brighton University. Programming languages. Diagram of programming languages history. The Programming Languages Genealogy Project. History of Programming Languages. 99 Bottles of Beer. Dictionary of Programming Languages. Wikipedia: Computer languages. Computer-Books.us: free computer books. Rosetta Code: a comparison of tasks in more than 150 languages.

	My other links
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