Timeline of Popular Programming Languages

Fortran

1957 Fortran I (implementation) John W. Backus at IBM

Cobol

1960 COBOL 61 (implementation) The CODASYL Committee

BASIC

1964 BASIC John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College

Pascal

1970 Pascal Niklaus Wirth, Kathleen Jensen

Altair BASIC

1975 Altair BASIC Bill Gates, Paul Allen

Interger BASIC

1976 Integer BASIC Steve Wozniak

MATLAB

1978 MATLAB Cleve Moler at the University of New Mexico

C

1978 Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published the first edition of The C Programming

C++

1980 C with classes Bjarne Stroustrup

Perl

1987 Perl Larry Wall

Python

1989 Python (programming language) Guido van Rossum

1991Visual Basic Alan Cooper, sold to Microsoft

1995 Java James Gosling at Sun Microsystems

1995 PHP Rasmus Lerdorf

1995 Ruby Yukihiro Matsumoto

1995J avaScript Brendan Eich at Netscape

1998 Standard C++ ANSI/ISO Standard C++

2000 C# Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft (ECMA)

2009 Go Google

2011 C++11 C++ ISO/IEC

2012 Julia Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Alan Edelman, MIT

2014 Swift Apple Inc.