See also: History of programming languages
- 1951 Regional Assembly Language
- 1952 Autocode
- 1954 IPL (forerunner to LISP)
- 1955 FLOW-MATIC (led to COBOL)
- 1957 FORTRAN (first compiler)
- 1957 COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL)
- 1958 LISP
- 1958 ALGOL 58
- 1959 FACT (forerunner to COBOL)
- 1959 COBOL
- 1959 RPG
- 1962 APL
- 1962 Simula
- 1962 SNOBOL
- 1963 CPL (forerunner to BCPL)
- 1964 Speakeasy
- 1964 BASIC
- 1964 PL/I
- 1966 JOSS
- 1966 MUMPS
- 1967 BCPL (forerunner to B)
- 1968 Logo
- 1969 B (forerunner to C)
- 1970 Pascal
- 1970 Forth
- 1972 C
- 1972 Smalltalk
- 1972 Prolog
- 1973 ML
- 1975 Scheme
- 1978 SQL (a query language, later extended)
- 1980 C++ (as C with classes, renamed in 1983)
- 1983 Ada
- 1984 Common Lisp
- 1984 MATLAB
- 1984 FoxPro
- 1985 Eiffel
- 1986 Objective-C
- 1986 LabVIEW (Visual Programming Language)
- 1986 Erlang
- 1987 Perl
- 1988 Tcl
- 1988 Wolfram Language (as part of Mathematica, only got a separate name in June 2013)
- 1989 FL
- 1990 Haskell
- 1991 Python
- 1991 Visual Basic
- 1993 Lua
- 1993 R
- 1994 CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)
- 1995 Ruby
- 1995 Java
- 1995 Delphi (Object Pascal)
- 1995 JavaScript
- 1995 PHP
- 1997 Rebol
- 2000 ActionScript
- 2001 C#
- 2001 D
- 2002 Scratch
- 2003 Groovy
- 2003 Scala
- 2005 F#
- 2006 PowerShell
- 2007 Clojure
- 2009 Go
- 2010 Rust
- 2011 Dart
- 2011 Kotlin
- 2011 Elixir
- 2012 Julia
- 2012 TypeScript
- 2014 Swift