目前一共統計出來這麽多編程語言，當然，這麽多的語言中只有一些是常用的或實用的。

1951 – Regional Assembly Language

1952 – Autocode

1954 – IPL (LISP語言的祖先)

1955 – FLOW-MATIC (COBOL語言的祖先)

1957 – FORTRAN (第一個編譯型語言)

1957 – COMTRAN (COBOL語言的祖先)

1958 – LISP

1958 – ALGOL 58

1959 – FACT (COBOL語言的祖先)

1959 – COBOL

1959 – RPG

1962 – APL

1962 – Simula

1962 – SNOBOL

1963 – CPL (C語言的祖先)

1964 – BASIC

1964 – PL/I

1966 – JOSS

1967 – BCPL (C語言的祖先)

1968 – Logo

1969 – B (C語言的祖先)

1970 – Pascal

1970 – Forth

1972 – C

1972 – Smalltalk

1972 – Prolog

1973 – ML

1975 – Scheme

1978 – SQL

1980 – C++ (既有類的C語言，更名於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

2011 – Kolin

2014 – Swift

編程語言發展的編年史