Another chronology of influential languages

• 1957 FORTRAN

• 1958 ALGOL

• 1960 LISP

• 1960 COBOL

• 1962 APL

• 1962 SIMULA

• 1964 BASIC

• 1964 PL/I

• 1966 ISWIM

• 1970 Prolog

• 1972 C

• 1975 Pascal

• 1975 Scheme

• 1977 OPS5

• 1978 CSP

• 1978 FP

• 1980 dBASE II

• 1983 Smalltalk-80

• 1983 Ada

• 1983 Parlog

• 1984 Standard ML

• 1986 C++

• 1986 CLP(R)

• 1986 Eiffel

• 1988 CLOS

• 1988 Mathematica

• 1988 Oberon

• 1990 Haskell

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