1950s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Short Code | William F Schmidt, A.B. Tonik, J.R. Logan | Brief Code |
| 1950 | Birkbeck Assembler | Kathleen Booth | ARC |
| 1951 | Superplan | Heinz Rutishauser | Plankalkül |
| 1951 | ALGAE | Edward A Voorhees and Karl Balke | * |
| 1951 | Intermediate Programming Language | Arthur Burks | Short Code |
| 1951 | Regional Assembly Language | Maurice Wilkes | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Boehm unnamed coding system | Corrado Böhm | CPC Coding scheme |
| 1951 | Klammerausdrücke | Konrad Zuse | Plankalkül |
| 1951 | OMNIBAC Symbolic Assembler | Charles Katz | Short Code |
| 1951 | Stanislaus (Notation) | Fritz Bauer | * |
| 1951 | Whirlwind assembler | Charles Adams and Jack Gilmore at MIT Project Whirlwind | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Rochester assembler | Nat Rochester | EDSAC |
| 1951 | Sort Merge Generator | Betty Holberton | * |
| 1952 | A-0 | Grace Hopper | C-10 and Short Code |
| 1952 | Autocode | Alick Glennie after Alan Turing | CPC Coding scheme |
| 1952 | Editing Generator | Milly Koss | SORT/MERGE |
| 1952 | COMPOOL | RAND/SDC | * |
| 1953 | Speedcoding | John W. Backus | * |
| 1953 | READ/PRINT | Don Harroff, James Fishman, George Ryckman | * |
| 1954 | Laning and Zierler system | Laning, Zierler, Adams at MIT Project Whirlwind | * |
| 1954 | Mark I Autocode | Tony Brooker | Glennie Autocode |
| 1954–55 | Fortran (concept) | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | Speedcoding |
| 1954 | ARITH-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 |
| 1954 | MATH-MATIC | Team led by Charles Katz | A-0 |
| 1954 | MATRIX MATH | H G Kahrimanian | * |
| 1954 | IPL I (concept) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | * |
| 1955 | FLOW-MATIC | Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC | A-0 |
| 1955 | BACAIC | M. Grems and R. Porter | |
| 1955 | PACT I | SHARE | FORTRAN, A-2 |
| 1955–56 | Sequentielle Formelübersetzung | Fritz Bauer and Karl Samelson | Boehm |
| 1955–56 | IT | Team led by Alan Perlis | Laning and Zierler |
| 1955 | IBM | ||
| 1958 | IPL II (implementation) | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL I |
| 1956–58 | LISP (concept) | John McCarthy | IPL |
| 1957 | COMTRAN | Bob Bemer | FLOW-MATIC |
| 1957 | Fortran I (implementation) | John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN |
| 1957–58 | UNICODE | Remington Rand UNIVAC | MATH-MATIC |
| 1957 | COMIT (concept) | * | |
| 1958 | Fortran II | Team led by John W. Backus at IBM | FORTRAN I |
| 1958 | ALGOL 58 (IAL) | ACM/GAMM | FORTRAN, IT and Sequentielle Formelübersetzung |
| 1958 | IPL V | Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon | IPL II |
| 1959 | FACT | Fletcher R. Jones, Roy Nutt, Robert L. Patrick | * |
| 1959 | COBOL (concept) | The CODASYL Committee | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN, FACT |
| 1959 | JOVIAL | Jules Schwartz at SDC | ALGOL 58 |
| 1959 | LISP (implementation) | John McCarthy | IPL |
| 1959 | MAD – Michigan Algorithm Decoder | Arden, Galler, and Graham | ALGOL 58 |
| 1959 | TRAC (concept) | Mooers | |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
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