1951 – Regional Assembly Language 1952 – Autocode 1954 – IPL (LISP语言的祖先) 1955 – FLOW-MATIC (COBOL语言的祖先) 1957 – FORTRAN (第一个编译型语言)
1957 – COMTRAN (COBOL语言的祖先) 1958 – LISP 1958 – ALGOL 58 1959 – FACT (COBOL语言的祖先) 1959 – COBOL 1959 – RPG 1962 – APL 1962 – Simula
1962 – SNOBOL 1963 – CPL (C语言的祖先) 1964 – BASIC 1964 – PL/I 1966 – JOSS 1967 – BCPL (C语言的祖先) 1968 – Logo 1969 – B (C语言的祖先) 1970 – Pascal
1970 – Forth 1972 – C 1972 – Smalltalk 1972 – Prolog 1973 – ML 1975 – Scheme 1978 – SQL 1980 – C++ (既有类的C语言，更名于1983年7月) 1983 – Ada
1984 – Common Lisp 1984 – MATLAB 1985 – Eiffel 1986 – Objective-C 1986 – Erlang 1987 – Perl 1988 – Tcl 1988 – Mathematica 1989 – FL 1990 – Haskell
1991 – Python 1991 – Visual Basic 1993 – Ruby 1993 – Lua 1994 – CLOS (ANSI Common Lisp的一部分) 1995 – Java 1995 – Delphi (Object Pascal) 1995 – Java
1995 – PHP 1996 – WebDNA 1997 – Rebol 1999 – D 2000 – Action 2001 – C# 2001 – Visual Basic .NET 2002 – F# 2003 – Groovy 2003 – Scala
2007 – Clojure 2009 – Go 2011 – Dart
从1951年2014年，人类一共发明了256种编程语言，每一种语言的出现都带有某些新特征。编程语言不断的在革新，很快就会有超出这个清单的新编程语言出现。相信在后来的不断的发展中，还会有更多优秀的语言出现。