目前一共统计出来这么多编程语言，当然，这么多的语言中只有一些是常用的或实用的。
1951 – Regional Assembly Language
1952 – Autocode
1954 – IPL (LISP语言的祖先)
1955 – FLOW-MATIC (COBOL语言的祖先)
1957 – FORTRAN (第一个编译型语言)
1957 – COMTRAN (COBOL语言的祖先)
1958 – LISP
1958 – ALGOL 58
1959 – FACT (COBOL语言的祖先)
1959 – COBOL
1959 – RPG
1962 – APL
1962 – Simula
1962 – SNOBOL
1963 – CPL (C语言的祖先)
1964 – BASIC
1964 – PL/I
1966 – JOSS
1967 – BCPL (C语言的祖先)
1968 – Logo
1969 – B (C语言的祖先)
1970 – Pascal
1970 – Forth
1972 – C
1972 – Smalltalk
1972 – Prolog
1973 – ML
1975 – Scheme
1978 – SQL
1980 – C++ (既有类的C语言，更名于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