Here, I am sharing with you important and notable Programming Languages with the Year of Development. The question are related to programming language and their year of development is frequently asked in the competitive exam.
Year – Programming Language 1951 – Regional Assembly Language 1952 – Autocode 1954 – IPL (forerunner to LISP) 1955 – FLOW-MATIC (led to COBOL) 1957 – FORTRAN (first compiler) 1957 – COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL) 1958 – LISP 1958 – ALGOL 58 1959 – FACT (forerunner to COBOL) 1959 – COBOL 1959 – RPG 1962 – APL 1962 – Simula 1962 – SNOBOL 1963 – CPL (forerunner to C) 1964 – Speakeasy 1964 – BASIC 1964 – PL/I 1966 – JOSS 1966 – MUMPS 1967 – BCPL (forerunner to c) 1967 – BCPL (forerunner to B) 1968 – Logo 1969 – B (forerunner to C) 1970 – Pascal 1970 – Forth 1972 – C 1972 – Smalltalk 1972 – Prolog 1973 – ML 1975 – Scheme 1978 – SQL (a query language, later extended) 1980 – C++ (as C with classes, renamed in 1983) 1983 – Ada620 1984 – Common Lisp 1984 – MATLAB 1984 – dBase III, dBase III Plus (Clipper and FoxPro as FoxBASE, later developing into Visual FoxPro) 1985 – Eiffel 1986 – Objective-C 1986 – LabVIEW (Visual Programming Language) 1986 – Erlang 1987 – Perl 1988 – Tcl 1988 – Wolfram Language (as part of Mathematica, only got a separate name in June 2013) 1989 – FL (Backus) 1990 – html 1990 – Haskell 1990 – Python 1991 – Visual Basic 1993 – Lua 1993 – R 1994 – CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp) 1995 – Ruby 1995 – Ada 95 1995 – Java 1995 – Delphi (Object Pascal) 1995 – JavaScript 1995 – PHP 1997 – Rebol 2000 – ActionScript 2001 – C# 2001 – D 2002 – Scratch 2003 – Groovy 2003 – Scala 2005 – F# 2006 – PowerShell 2007 – Clojure 2009 – Go 2010 – Rust 2011 – Dart 2011 – Kotlin 2011 – Elixir 2012 – Julia 2012 – TypeScript 2014 – Swift
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