Programming Languages Timeline By 1516167 1883 ADA 1940 Plankalkul 1955 Math-Matic 1957 Fortran 1959 COBOL & RPG 1960 Lisp 1964 Basic 1967 LOGO 1970 B, Pascal, & SQL 1972 C & ML 1979 C++ 1991 Python & Visual Basic 1995 Delphi, Java, JavaScript, & PHP