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Programming Languages: Inventors & Years

The document lists popular programming languages along with their year of invention and inventors. Notable languages include Fortran (1957, John Backus), Python (1991, Guido van Rossum), and Swift (2014, Chris Lattner). It provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of programming languages from 1957 to 2014.

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Programming Languages: Inventors & Years

The document lists popular programming languages along with their year of invention and inventors. Notable languages include Fortran (1957, John Backus), Python (1991, Guido van Rossum), and Swift (2014, Chris Lattner). It provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of programming languages from 1957 to 2014.

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Popular Programming Languages: Year

of Invention and Inventors


Programming Language Year of Invention Inventor(s)
Fortran 1957 John Backus and IBM team
LISP 1958 John McCarthy
COBOL 1959 Grace Hopper, CODASYL
BASIC 1964 John G. Kemeny, Thomas E.
Kurtz
C 1972 Dennis Ritchie
Pascal 1970 Niklaus Wirth
Smalltalk 1972 Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg,
Dan Ingalls
C++ 1985 Bjarne Stroustrup
Objective-C 1984 Brad Cox, Tom Love
Perl 1987 Larry Wall
Python 1991 Guido van Rossum
Ruby 1995 Yukihiro Matsumoto
Java 1995 James Gosling
JavaScript 1995 Brendan Eich
PHP 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf
Swift 2014 Chris Lattner, Apple Inc.
Kotlin 2011 JetBrains
Rust 2010 Graydon Hoare
Go (Golang) 2009 Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike,
Ken Thompson
R 1993 Ross Ihaka, Robert
Gentleman
SQL 1974 Donald D. Chamberlin,
Raymond F. Boyce
MATLAB 1984 Cleve Moler
Scala 2004 Martin Odersky
Lua 1993 Roberto Ierusalimschy,
Waldemar Celes, Luiz
Henrique de Figueiredo
Ada 1980 Jean Ichbiah and team (CII
Honeywell Bull)
Erlang 1986 Joe Armstrong, Robert
Virding, Mike Williams
Haskell 1990 Simon Peyton Jones, Paul
Hudak, and others
C# 2000 Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft
Dart 2011 Lars Bak, Kasper Lund
TypeScript 2012 Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft

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