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:


A4	Letter	Plotter

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). You can also look at the Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages (8945 programming 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 Home Page AdaPower Special Interest Group on Ada Ada Information Clearinghouse AdaCore ALGOL The ALGOL Programming Language History of ALGOL 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 Visual Basic Instinct Visual Basic & Visual Basic .NET Resources True BASIC 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) JTC1/SC22/WG14 - C by ISO/IEC C Programming Course C++ The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup C and C++: Siblings (pdf) by Bjarne Stroustrup C# Visual C# Language by Microsoft. Caml The Caml language OCaml The Objective-Caml system CLU CLU Home Page COBOL IBM COBOL family COBOL Portal TinyCOBOL COBOL User Groups - COBUG CORAL Coral 66 (Wikipedia) CPL The main features of CPL By Barron, Buxton, Hartley, Nixon and Strachey Combined Programming Language (Wikipedia) Delphi Delphi 10 Seattle A brief history of Borland's Delphi Delphi Treff: Delphi versions (german) Eiffel EiffelStudio by Eiffel Software Visual Eiffel by Object Tools SmartEiffel Basic Eiffel language mechanismsby Bertrand Meyer Flow-Matic FLOW-MATIC (wikipedia) Forth Forth Interest Group Home Page colorForth by Chuck Moore 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 Oracle Java Technology: an early history Programming Languages for the Java Virtual Machine JavaScript JavaScript Language Resources from Mozilla Standard ECMA-262 Lisp The Association of Lisp Users Common Lisp: Intro, Resources & FAQ Mainsail Mainsail Language Manual 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 Modula-2 ISO/IEC Oberon Oberon A Description of the Oberon-2 Language The Programming Language Oberon-2 Oberon Language Genealogy Tree The Oberon Community Platform The Programming Language Oberon Objective-C Learn Objective-C by Cocoa Dev Central Objective-C FAQ About Objective-C by Apple Pascal ISO Pascal by Pascal Central Pascal and Delphi Perl Perl Home Page Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor PL/I Multics PL/I IBM PL/I family by IBM Plankalkül The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse" PostScript PostScript level 3 by Adobe GhostScript 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 Self (Wikipedia) Sh The Traditional Bourne Shell Family by Sven Mascheck Korn Shell by David Korn Bash from GNU Zsh Simula Compiling Simula by Jan Rune Holmevik Simula (wikipedia) Smalltalk Smalltalk FAQ The Early History of Smalltalk VisualAge Smalltalk from IBM The history of Squeak ANSI Smalltalk SNOBOL Snobol4 Resources by Phil Budne Snobol4 Swift Swift by Apple Swift community 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. 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. Rosetta Code: a comparison of tasks in more than 150 languages. Technology Guide: Computer Programming History: a comparison of tasks in more than 150 languages. Computer History: A Timeline of Computer Programming Languages, for Lily.

	My other links
	Search in all levenez.com UNIX History. Unix Hierarchy (an old paper). Windows History. NeXT History (in french). Another Chart On The Wall. Statistics of this site. Other Unix Products.