History of Programming Languages

• FORTRAN 1954-57 numeric

• ALGOL 60 1958-60 numeric

• COBOL 1959-60 business

• APL 1956-60 vector/matrix math

• LISP 1956-62 symbols

• SNOBOL4 1962-66 strings

• PL/1 1963-64 general

• BASIC 1964 educational

• PASCAL 1971 educational

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