Generational list of programming languages
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This is a "genealogy" of programming languages. Languages are categorized under the ancestor language with the strongest influence. Those ancestor languages are listed in alphabetical order. Any such categorization has a large arbitrary element, since programming languages often incorporate major ideas from multiple sources.
ALGOL based[]
- ALGOL (also under Fortran)
- Atlas Autocode
- ALGOL 58 (IAL, International Algorithmic Language)
- MAD and GOM (Michigan Algorithm Decoder and Good Old MAD)
- ALGOL 60
- ALGOL 68
- ALGOL W
- Pascal
- Ada
- SPARK
- PL/SQL
- Turbo Pascal
- Object Pascal (Delphi)
- Free Pascal (FPC)
- Kylix (same as Delphi, but for Linux)
- Object Pascal (Delphi)
- Euclid
- Concurrent Euclid
- Turing
- Turing Plus
- Object Oriented Turing
- Mesa
- SUE
- Ada
- Pascal
- CPL
- BCPL
- B
- C (see also C based languages)
- BCPL
- Julia (also under Lisp, Python, Ruby)
APL based[]
BASIC based[]
- BASIC (also under Fortran II)
- AmigaBASIC
- AMOS BASIC
- BASIC Stamp
- Basic-256
- BASIC09
- BBC Basic
- Blitz BASIC
- Business Basic
- Chinese BASIC
- COMAL
- Commodore BASIC
- DarkBASIC
- DarkBASIC Professional
- Euphoria
- GW-BASIC
- QuickBASIC
- QBasic
- Visual Basic
- VBScript
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Visual Basic .NET
- B4X
- Basic for Qt
- OpenOffice Basic
- HBasic
- Gambas
- WinWrap Basic
- WordBasic
- QB64
- QuickBASIC
- GLBasic
- PureBasic
- Turbo Basic
- REALbasic (Xojo)
- thinBasic
- TI-BASIC
- True BASIC
- wxBasic
- XBasic
- YaBasic
Batch languages[]
- MS-DOS Batch files
- Winbatch
- CLIST
- IBM Job Control Language (JCL)
C based[]
- C (also under BCPL)
- Alef
- C++
- C#
- Windows PowerShell (also under DCL, ksh, and Perl)
- Cobra (class/object model and other features)
- Java (see also Java based languages)
- C--
- Cyclone
- Rust (also under C++, Haskell, and OCaml)
- ColdFusion
- Go (also under Oberon)
- Harbour
- LPC
- Pike
- Objective-C (also under Smalltalk)
- Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Haskell)
- PCASTL (also under Lisp)
- Perl
- Python
- Julia (also under Lisp, Ruby, ALGOL)
- Nim (also under Oberon)
- Swift (also under Ruby, Objective-C, and Haskell)
- QuakeC
- tcsh (also under sh)
COBOL based[]
COMIT based[]
DCL based[]
- DCL
- Windows PowerShell (also under C#, ksh, and Perl)
ed based[]
- ed (programming language)
- sed
- AWK
- Perl (also under C)
Eiffel based[]
Forth based[]
Fortran based[]
- Fortran
FP based[]
- FP (Function Programming)
- FL (Function Level)
- (also under Lisp and object-oriented programming)
HyperTalk based[]
- HyperTalk
- ActionScript (also under JavaScript)
- AppleScript
- SenseTalk
- SuperTalk
- Transcript
Java based[]
- Java (also under C)
JavaScript based[]
- JavaScript (also under Scheme, Self)
- ActionScript (also under HyperTalk)
- Asm.js
- CoffeeScript
- ECMAScript
- JavaScript OSA
- JScript
- TypeScript
JOSS based[]
JOSS also inspired features for several versions of BASIC, including Tymshare's SUPER BASIC and 's BASIC-PLUS.
Lisp based[]
- Lisp
- Arc
- AutoLISP
- Clojure
- Common Lisp
- Emacs Lisp
- Julia (has Lisp-like macros, but ALGOL-like syntax) (also under Python, Ruby, ALGOL)
- K (also under APL)
- LFE
- Logo
- Nu programming language
- PicoLisp
- REBOL
- RPL (also under Forth)
- S
- R
- PCASTL (also under ALGOL)
- R
- Scheme
ML based[]
PL/I based[]
Prolog based[]
SASL based[]
- SASL
- Kent Recursive Calculator
- Miranda
- Haskell
- Agda
- Elm
- Idris
- Rust (also under C++, Cyclone, and OCaml)
- Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Objective-C)
- PureScript
- Haskell
SETL based[]
sh based[]
Simula based[]
- Simula (also under ALGOL 60)
- C++ (also under C)
- Smalltalk
- Objective-C (hybrid of C and Smalltalk)
- Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Haskell)
- Cobra (support both dynamic and static types)
- Ruby (also under Perl)
- Swift (also under Objective-C, Python, and Haskell)
- Elixir[citation needed] (also under Erlang)
- Self
- JavaScript (also under Scheme) (see also JavaScript based languages)
- NewtonScript
- Objective-C (hybrid of C and Smalltalk)
- BETA
Tcl based[]
Others[]
- Assembly
- BLISS
- CORAL
- Curl
- GPSS
- LabVIEW
- NXT-G
- Microsoft Power Fx
- occam
- POP-2, POP-11
- REFAL
- RPG (Report Program Generator)
- Seed7
- SQL (Structured Query Language)
- TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language)
- TUTOR
References[]
- ^ Valim, José. "Elixir: The Documentary" (Video). Honeypot. Honeypot. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
Erickson, they created Erlang. This technology that they created, right, in the eighties, to solve all these problems. It's going to be perfect to solve those issues that we're having right now with concurrency, those issues that we're having with the web in general, right? I think that was the moment when I had the idea of creating a programming language. Like, look I have this absolutely beautiful piece of software which is the Erlang virtual machine. I want to use it more but it's missing some stuff and I want to try adding this missing stuff.
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