History of programming languages from 1950 to 2020

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1950 - Short Code

1951 – Regional Assembly Language

1952 – Autocode

1953 - Invention of High-Level Programming Language.

1954 – IPL (forerunner to LISP)

1955 – FLOW-MATIC (led to COBOL)

1956 - Information Processing Language

1957 – FORTRAN (first compiler)

1958 – LISP

1958 – ALGOL 58

1959 – RPG

1960 - ALGOL 60

1961 - COMIT

1962 – SNOBOL

1963 – CPL (forerunner to C)

1964 – Speakeasy

1965 - Simula

1966 – JOSS

1966 - MUMPS

1967 – BCPL (forerunner to C)

1968 – Logo

1969 – B (forerunner to C)

1970 – Pascal

1971 - BLISS

1972 – C

1972 – Prolog

1973 – ML

1974 - GRASS

1975 – Scheme

1976 - KRL

1977 - FLACC

1978 – SQL (a query language, later extended)

1979 - Rexx

1980 – C++ (as C with classes, renamed in 1983)

1981 - BBC Basic

1982 - Argus

1983 – Ada

1984 – Common Lisp

1984 – MATLAB

1985 – Eiffel

1986 – Objective-C

1987 – Perl

1988 – Tcl

1989 – FL (Backus)

1990 – Python

1991 – Visual Basic

1992 - SQL-92

1993 – Lua

1993 – R

1994 – CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)

1995 – Java

1995 – PHP

1996 - OCaml

1997 – Rebol

1998 - Actionscript

1999 - Cobolscript

2000 – ActionScript

2001 – C#

2002 – Scratch

2003 – Groovy

2004 - Little b

2005 – F#

2006 – PowerShell

2007 – Clojure

2008 – Nim

2009 – Go

2010 – Rust

2011 – Dart

2011 – Kotlin

2011 – Elixir

2012 – Julia

2012 - TypeScript

2014 – Swift

2015 - Raku

2016 - Reason

2017 - Flutter

2018 - C18

2019 - Bosque

2020 - TypeScript

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