1980s
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ada 80 (MIL-STD-1815) | Ichbiah at CII Honeywell Bull | Green |
| 1980 | C with classes | Stroustrup | C, Simula 67 |
| 1980–81 | CBASIC | Gordon Eubanks | BASIC, Compiler Systems, Digital Research |
| 1981 | IBM BASICA | Microsoft | BASIC |
| 1982? | Speakeasy-IV | Stanley Cohen, et al. at Speakeasy Computing Corporation | Speakeasy-3 |
| 1982? | Draco | Chris Gray | Pascal, C, ALGOL 68 |
| 1982 | PostScript | Warnock | InterPress |
| 1983 | GW-BASIC | Microsoft | IBM BASICA |
| 1983 | Ada 83 (ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A) | Ichbiah at Alsys | Ada 80, Green |
| 1983 | C++ | Stroustrup | C with Classes |
| 1983 | True BASIC | Kemeny, Kurtz at Dartmouth College | BASIC |
| 1983 | occam | David May | EPL |
| 1983? | ABAP | SAP AG | COBOL |
| 1984 | CLIPPER | Nantucket | dBase |
| 1984 | Common Lisp | Guy L. Steele, Jr. and many others | LISP |
| 1984? | GOM – Good Old Mad | Don Boettner, University of Michigan | MAD |
| 1984? | Korn Shell (ksh) | David Korn | sh |
| 1984 | RPL | Hewlett-Packard | Forth, Lisp |
| 1984 | Standard ML | ML | |
| 1984 | Redcode | Alexander Dewdney and D.G. Jones | |
| 1985 | PARADOX | Borland | dBase |
| 1985 | QuickBASIC | Microsoft | BASIC |
| 1986 | CorVision | Cortex | INFORM |
| 1986 | Eiffel | Meyer | Simula 67, Ada |
| 1986 | GFA BASIC | Frank Ostrowski | BASIC |
| 1986 | Informix-4GL | Informix | |
| 1986 | LabVIEW | National Instruments | |
| 1986 | Miranda | David Turner at University of Kent | |
| 1986 | Objective-C | Brad Cox | Smalltalk, C |
| 1986 | Object Pascal | Apple Computer Inc. | Pascal |
| 1986 | PROMAL | C | |
| 1987 | Ada ISO 8652:1987 | ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A unchanged | Ada 83 |
| 1987 | Self (concept) | Sun Microsystems Inc. | Smalltalk |
| 1987 | occam 2 | David May and INMOS | occam |
| 1987 | HyperTalk | Apple Computer Inc. | * |
| 1987 | Perl | Wall | C, sed, awk, sh |
| 1987 | Oberon | Wirth | Modula-2 |
| 1987 | Erlang | Joe Armstrong and others in Ericsson | Prolog |
| 1987 | Mathematica | Wolfram Research | * |
| 1987 | Turbo Basic | Robert 'Bob' Zale | BASIC/Z |
| 1988 | Octave | MATLAB | |
| 1988 | Tcl | Ousterhout | Awk, Lisp |
| 1988 | STOS BASIC | François Lionet and Constantin Sotiropoulos | BASIC |
| 1988 | Object REXX | Simon C. Nash | REXX |
| 1988 | SPARK | Bernard A. Carré | Ada |
| 1988 | A+ | Arthur Whitney | APL |
| 1989 | Turbo Pascal OOP | Hejlsberg at Borland | Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal |
| 1989 | Modula-3 | Cardeli, et al. DEC and Olivetti | Modula-2 |
| 1989 | PowerBASIC | Robert 'Bob' Zale | Turbo Basic |
| 1989 | VisSim | Peter Darnell, Visual Solutions | |
| 1989 | LPC | Lars Pensjö | |
| Year | Name | Chief developer, Company | Predecessor(s) |
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