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History of Programming: Timeline of Programming Languages, Programming Language History - 1940s to 1970s, Programming Language History - 1980s to 1990s, Programming Language History - 2000 to 2023, Programming Languages

Oldest Programming Languages: Assembly (1949), IPL (1956), FORTRAN (1957), LISP (1958), COBOL (1959), ALGOL (1960), APL (1962), CPL (1963), BASIC (1964), PL/I (1964), Simula (1967), Simula67 (1967), B (1969), Pascal (1970), C (1972), Prolog (1972), ML (1973), SQL (1974), Scheme (1975), Modula-2 (1977), Smalltalk (1980), Ada (1980), Smalltalk-80 (1980), C++ (1983), Objective-C (1984), MATLAB (1984), Common Lisp (1984), Erlang (1986), Perl (1987), Tcl (1988), Haskell (1990), Python (1991), Visual Basic (1991), Lua (1993), R (1993), Ruby (1995), Java (1995), JavaScript (1995), PHP (1995), Delphi (1995), Groovy (2003), Scala (2004), F (2005), Haxe (2005), PowerShell (2006), Clojure (2007), Nim (2008), Go (2009), Chapel (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), Dart (2011), Elixir (2011), Ceylon (2011), Red (2011), Julia (2012), TypeScript (2012), Elm (2012), Swift (2014), Hack (2014), Crystal (2014), Zig (2015), Reason (2016), Ballarina (2017), V (2019)

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