Language: A Programming Language
Acronym: APL
Created Year: 1962
Kenneth Iverson
  College: Harvard (Ph.D.)
  Company: IBM
  Email:
  Website

Language: Ada
Created Year: 1979
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
GNAT Ada Core Technologies 3.14p
Jean Ichbiah
  Company: Cii Honeywell/Bull

Language: ALGOrithmic Language
Acronym: ALGOL
Created Year: 1960
Friedrich Bauer
Peter Naur

Language: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Acronym: BASIC
Created Year: 1963
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
QBasic Microsoft

John Kemeny
  Company: Dartmouth College
  Website
Thomas Kurtz
  Company: Dartmouth College
  Website

Language: C
Created Year: 1972
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
DJGPP DJ Delorie
GCC GNU
CC Sun Microsystems

Dennis Ritchie
  Company: Bell Labs
  Email: dmr@bell-labs.com
  Website

Brian Kerrighan
  Company: Bell Labs
  Email: bwk@bell-labs.com
  Website

Language: C++
Created Year: 1985
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Microsoft

Bjarne Stroustrup
  Company: AT&T
  Website

Language: COMmercial TRANSlator
Acronym: COMTRAN

Language: Common Business Oriented Language
Acronym: COBOL
Created Year: 1960
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
COBOL for GCC GNU 0.1.2
TinyCOBOL Rildo Pragana 0.59

Language: Delphi

Language: Eiffel
Created Year: 1992
Bertrand Meyer
  Company: Interactive Software Engineering

Language: FLOW-MATIC
Created Year: 1957
Grace Hopper
  Company: Remington-Rand UNIVAC

Language: Haskell

Language: HTML

Language: Java
Created Year: 1995
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Java SDK Sun Microsystems 1.4

James Gosling
  College: Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) and University of
  Company: Sun Labs
  Website

Language: List Processing
Acronym: LISP
Created Year: 1960

John McCarthy
  College: Princeton University (Ph. D.)
  Company: Stanford University
  Email: jmc@cs.stanford.edu
  Website

Language: Logo
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
StarLogo MIT 2.0.2
Seymour Papert

Language: MetaLanguage
Acronym: ML
Created Year: 1980

Language: Miranda
Created Year: 1980
David Turner
  College: Universty of Kent

Language: Modula
Created Year: 1976
Niklaus Wirth

Language: Open GL

Language: Pascal
Created Year: 1971
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Turbo Pascal Borland 5.5
GNU Pascal GNU 2.1
Niklaus Wirth

Language: PL/I
Created Year: 1965

Language: Practical Extraction and Report Language
Acronym: PERL
Created Year: 1987
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
ActivePerl Active State
SiePerl The Perl Foundation 5.8.0

Larry Wall
  Email: larry@wall.org
  Website

Language: Programming Logic
Acronym: Prolog
Created Year: 1972
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
SWI-Prolog SWI - University of Amsterdam 5.1.3
Robert Kowalski
Alain Colmerauer
Phillippe Roussel

Language: Python
Created Year: 1985
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Python Python Software Foundation 2.2.1
Guido van Rossum
  College: M.S. University of Amsterdam
  Company: Zope Corporation
  Website

Language: Scheme
Created Year: 1970
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Dr. Scheme PLT 202

Language: SIMULA
Created Year: 1964
Kristen Nygaard
  Company: Norwegian Computing Center (NCC)
Ole-Johan Dahl
  Company: Norwegian Computing Center (NCC)

Language: SmallTalk
Created Year: 1980
CompilerCreatorVersionRelease
Squeak

Alan Kay
  Email: alank@wdi.disney.com
  Website

Language: SNOBOL
Created Year: 1960
D Farber
  Company: Bell Laboratories
R Griswold
  Company: Bell Laboratories
F Polensky
  Company: Bell Laboratories

Language: The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System
Acronym: FORTRAN
Created Year: 1957

John Backus

Language: XML


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