Language History Highlights

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The following timeline was taken from Jean Sammet's article "Some Approaches to, and Illustrations of, Programming Language History"

1952-53

SHORT CODE. Speedcoding. Laning & Zierler
1954

FORTRAN (preliminary specs)
1955

FLOW-MATIC
1956

IPL
1957

FORTRAN (released), COMIT, APT (preliminary specs)
1958

ALGOL 58
1959 - 1960

COBOL, JOVIAl, LISP, APT (released)
1960

ALGOL 60
1961

GPSS, SIMSCRIPT
1962

SNOBOL
1964

JOSS, BASIC, PL/1 (preliminary specs), FORMAC
1966

APL\360, PL/1 (released)
1967

SIMULA 67
1968

ALGOL 68
1970

Pascal
1975

C, PROLOG
1979

Ada (preliminary specs)
1980

Smalltalk 80
1983

Ada validated complier