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Plankalkul
Historical language with the most ridiculous of names.. -
MATH-MATIC
Intended to be an improvement of Fortran -
Fortran
High-performance computing language -
Lisp
Polish prefix programming language family -
COBOL
Compiled language designed for business use which arose from GNU Cobol -
RPG
IBM's propietary programming language for business applications. High level, not too good in performance. -
BASIC
BASIC, a beginner's languague with little to no block structure functionality is designed to help students work better with the computer. -
Logo
Turtle graphics. 'nuf said -
B
Ken Thompson from Bell Labs creates a new language based off of BCPL. -
Pascal
Imperative commercial language Pascal is introduced -
C
Structured language created by Bell Labs (at the time bought out by AT&T) -
ML
A commercial functional programming language developed as a safe and sturdy implementation -
SQL
I refuse to acknowledge this as a language of any kind. -
Ada
Multi-paradigm language Ada is commissioned by the DoD in response to a "concerning" diversity of languages being used in military applications -
C++
More structured instruction-based language C++ is designed by Bjarne Stroustrup -
Python
High-level language that is good for beginners and for paraphrasing of longer operations where time and performance is not critical. In other words, it's good if you hate typing and want a 15-line program -
Visual Basic
Microsoft's brilliant idea of reviving a language that was dead for a reason. -
Delphi
A Pascal dialect intended and solely, if not entirely, used on Windows systems -
PHP
Server-side scripting tool is developed -
JavaScript
Browser interaction is the main use of this many years after it is introduced, while it is now becoming more widely used for server-side operations as well as some derivative desktop and mobile applications. -
Java
Concurrent, object-oriented, class-based and thread friendly system that can be run on virtually any architecture thanks to the open interpreter and it's lack of depency