1960s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ALGOL 60 | ALGOL 58 | |
| 1960 | COBOL 61 (implementation) | The CODASYL Committee | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN |
| 1961 | COMIT (implementation) | * | |
| 1962 | Fortran IV | FORTRAN II | |
| 1962 | APL (concept) | Iverson | * |
| 1962 | Simula (concept) | ALGOL 60 | |
| 1962 | SNOBOL | Griswold, et al. | FORTRAN II, COMIT |
| 1963 | CPL | Barron, Strachey, et al. | ALGOL 60 |
| 1963 | SNOBOL3 | Griswold, et al. | SNOBOL |
| 1963 | ALGOL 68 (concept) | van Wijngaarden, et al. | ALGOL 60 |
| 1963 | JOSS I | Cliff Shaw, RAND | ALGOL 58 |
| 1964 | MIMIC | H. E. Petersen, et al. | MIDAS |
| 1964 | COWSEL | Burstall, Popplestone | CPL, LISP |
| 1964 | PL/I (concept) | IBM | ALGOL 60, COBOL, FORTRAN |
| 1964 | BASIC | Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth College | FORTRAN II, JOSS |
| 1964 | IBM RPG | IBM | FARGO |
| 1964 | Mark-IV | Informatics | |
| 1964 | Speakeasy-2 | Stanley Cohen at Argonne National Laboratory | Speakeasy |
| 1964 | TRAC (implementation) | Mooers | |
| 1964? | IITRAN | ||
| 1965 | MAD/I (concept) | University of Michigan | MAD, ALGOL 60, PL/I |
| 1965 | TELCOMP | BBN | JOSS |
| 1965 | Atlas Autocode | Tony Brooker,Derrick Morris at Manchester University | Algol 60, Autocode |
| 1966 | JOSS II | Chuck Baker, RAND | JOSS I |
| 1966 | ALGOL W | Niklaus Wirth, C. A. R. Hoare | ALGOL 60 |
| 1966 | Fortran 66 | FORTRAN IV | |
| 1966 | ISWIM (Concept) | Landin | LISP |
| 1966 | CORAL66 | ALGOL 60 | |
| 1967 | BCPL | Richards | CPL |
| 1967 | MUMPS | Massachusetts General Hospital | FORTRAN, TELCOMP |
| 1967 | APL (implementation) | Iverson | * |
| 1967 | Simula 67 (implementation) | Dahl, Myhrhaug, Nygaard at Norsk Regnesentral | ALGOL 60 |
| 1967 | InterLisp | D.G. Bobrow and D.L. Murphy | Lisp |
| 1967 | SNOBOL4 | Griswold, et al. | SNOBOL3 |
| 1967 | XPL | W. M. McKeeman, et al. at University of California Santa Cruz, California J. J. Horning, et al. at Stanford University |
PL/I |
| 1968 | ALGOL 68 (UNESCO/IFIP standard) | A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Mailloux, J.E.L. Peck and Cornelis H. A. Koster, et al. | ALGOL 60 |
| 1968 | POP-1 | Burstall, Popplestone | COWSEL |
| 1968 | DIBOL-8 | DEC | DIBOL |
| 1968 | Forth (concept) | Moore | |
| 1968 | LOGO | Papert | LISP |
| 1968 | MAPPER | Unisys | CRT RPS |
| 1968 | REFAL (implementation) | Valentin Turchin | * |
| 1969 | PL/I (implementation) | IBM | ALGOL 60, COBOL, FORTRAN |
| 1969 | B | Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie | BCPL |
| 1969 | PPL | Thomas A. Standish at Harvard University | |
| 1969 | SETL | Jack Schwartz at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | |
| 1969 | TUTOR | Paul Tenczar & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 1969 | Edinburgh IMP | Edinburgh University | Algol 60, Autocode, Atlas Autocode |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
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