作为计算机工作人员，也就是所谓的程序猿，能够了解几种语言也就可以了，但是可以了解我们程序语言发展的历史。下面就是列举出的我所知道的语言历史。谢谢！
- 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 – JavaScript
- 1995 – PHP
- 1996 – WebDNA
- 1997 – Rebol
- 1999 – D
- 2000 – ActionScript
- 2001 – C#
- 2001 – Visual Basic .NET
- 2002 – F#
- 2003 – Groovy
- 2003 – Scala
- 2007 – Clojure
- 2009 – Go
- 2011 – Dart
各位有错误请指出，也欢迎大家能够补充没有贴上去的。谢谢!!!