// TIMELINE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND THEIR AUTHORS
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// Last modified Oct 15, 2002 // 16:16
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// Questionable dates:
//              C+OOP  198? C++ -- Bjarne Stroustrup
//                C++  1998  ISO Standard C++ 
//                  *  197?  sh (Bourne Shell) -- Bourne
//                 sh  19??  ksh (Korn Shell) -- Dave Korn
//                ksh  199?  zsh (Z Shell)
1840  
FIRST PROGRAM -- Ada Lovelace
1945
Plankalkül -- Konrad Zuse
1952
A-0 -- Grace Hopper
1954
Mark I Autocode -- Tony Brooker; ARITH-MATIC -- Grace Hopper
1955  
MATH-MATIC -- Grace Hopper; FLOW-MATIC -- Grace Hopper; FORTRAN -- Backus
1957  
COMTRAN -- Bob Bemer
1957  
General Problem Solver -- Newell
1958
FORTRAN II -- Backus; Algol 58
1959
LISP McCarthy
1960
COBOL The CodasylCommittee; Algol 60; JOSS
1962  
FORTRAN IV; APL -- Iverson; Simula; SNOBOL -- Griswold, et al.; SNOBOL3 -- Griswold, et al.
1963
CPL -- Barron, Strachey, et al.
1964
COWSEL Burstall, Popplestone; PL 1; BASIC -- Kemeney and Kurtz
1966
FORTRAN IV; CORAL66 Real Time version of Algol 60
1967
BCPL -- Martin Richards; MUMPS -- Massachusetts General Hospital; Simula67; SNOBOL4 -- Griswold, et al.
1968
ALGOL 68 -- Wijngaarten, et al.; POP-1 -- Burstall,  Popplestone; Forth -- Chuck Moore (first paper, 1970)
1970  
POP-2 
1971  
Pascal -- Nicklas Wirth, Jensen
1972  
SMALLTALK Environment -- SMALLTALK--Digitalk
1972  
C -- Dennis Ritchie
1973 
PROLOG -- Alain Colmeraurer 
1975
Scheme -- Gerald Jay Sussman, Guy Lewis Steele Jr.; Altair BASIC -- Bill Gates, Steve Allen
1977
X11.1 ANSI Standard MUMPS
1978
FORTRAN77; VISICALC -- Dan Bricklin, Frankston
1979
VULCAN DBASE-II -- Ratliff; Green -- Jean Ichbiah et al., US Department of Defense
1980
SMALLTALK-80 -- Digitalk
1983
Ada -- US Dept of Defense; Turbo Pascal -- Anders Hejlsberg
1984
CLIPPER -- Nantucket; Standard ML
1985
1984 MUMPS; PARADOX -- Borland
1986
Eiffel -- Meyer
1987
HyperCard -- Apple; SQL-1; Perl
1988
Octave; dBaseIV; Tcl [John Ousterhout]
1989
Turbo-Pascal+OOP -- Borland; Standard C -- ANSI X3.159-1989 (adopted by ISO in 1990); OBERON -- Wirth
1990
Haskell; 1990 MUMPS        
1991
Python
1992
SQL-2; Borland Pascal
1993
Ruby
1995
Ada 95 -- ISO; Delphi(1) -- Borland; Java -- Sun Microsystems; 1995 MUMPS 
2001
KYLIX -- Borland