1970s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970? | Forth (implementation) | Moore | |
| 1970 | POP-2 | POP-1 | |
| 1970 | Pascal | Wirth, Jensen | ALGOL 60, ALGOL W |
| 1970 | BLISS | Wulf, Russell, Habermann at Carnegie Mellon University | ALGOL |
| 1971 | KRL | Daniel G. Bobrow at Xerox PARC, Terry Winograd at Stanford University | KM, FRL (MIT) |
| 1971 | Sue | Holt et al. at University of Toronto | Pascal, XPL |
| 1972 | Smalltalk | Xerox PARC | Simula 67 |
| 1972 | PL/M | Kildall at Digital Research | PL/I, ALGOL, XPL |
| 1972 | C | Dennis Ritchie | B, BCPL, ALGOL 68 |
| 1972 | INTERCAL | Don Woods and James M. Lyon | * |
| 1972 | Prolog | Colmerauer | 2-level W-Grammar |
| 1972 | SQL aka structured query language | IBM | Ingres |
| 1973 | COMAL | Christensen, Løfstedt | Pascal, BASIC |
| 1973 | ML | Robin Milner | |
| 1973 | LIS | Ichbiah et al. at CII Honeywell Bull | Pascal, Sue |
| 1973 | Speakeasy-3 | Stanley Cohen, Steven Pieper at Argonne National Laboratory | Speakeasy-2 |
| 1974 | GRASS | DeFanti | BASIC |
| 1974 | BASIC FOUR | MAI BASIC Four Inc. | Business BASIC |
| 1975 | ABC | Leo Geurts and Lambert Meertens | SETL |
| 1975 | Scheme | Sussman, Steele | LISP |
| 1975 | Altair BASIC | Gates, Allen | BASIC |
| 1975 | CS-4 | Miller, Brosgol et al. at Intermetrics | ALGOL 68, BLISS, ECL, HAL |
| 1975 | Modula | Wirth | Pascal |
| 1976 | Plus | Allan Ballard, Paul Whaley at the University of British Columbia | Pascal, Sue |
| 1976 | Smalltalk-76 | Xerox PARC | Smalltalk-72 |
| 1976 | Mesa | Xerox PARC | ALGOL |
| 1976 | SAM76 | Claude A.R. Kagan | LISP, TRAC |
| 1976 | Ratfor | Kernighan | C, FORTRAN |
| 1976 | S | John Chambers at Bell Labs | APL, PPL, Scheme |
| 1977 | FP | John Backus | * |
| 1977 | Bourne Shell (sh) | Bourne | * |
| 1977 | Commodore BASIC | Jack Tramiel | Licenced from Microsoft |
| 1977 | IDL | David Stern of Research Systems Inc | Fortran |
| 1977 | Standard MUMPS | MUMPS | |
| 1977 | Icon (concept) | Griswold | SNOBOL |
| 1977 | Green | Ichbiah et al. at CII Honeywell Bull for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68, LIS |
| 1977 | Red | Brosgol et al. at Intermetrics for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68, CS-4 |
| 1977 | Blue | Goodenough et al. at SofTech for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68 |
| 1977 | Yellow | Spitzen et al. at SRI International for US Dept of Defense | ALGOL 68 |
| 1978? | MATLAB | Moler at the University of New Mexico | * |
| 1978? | SMALL | Brownlee at the University of Auckland | Algol60 |
| 1978 | VisiCalc | Bricklin, Frankston marketed by VisiCorp | * |
| 1979 | Modula-2 | Wirth | Modula, Mesa |
| 1979 | REXX | Cowlishaw | PL/I, BASIC, EXEC 2 |
| 1979 | AWK | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan | C, SNOBOL |
| 1979 | Icon (implementation) | Griswold | SNOBOL |
| 1979 | Vulcan dBase-II | Ratliff | * |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
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