Welcome to the Dictionary of Programming Languages, a compendium of computer coding methods assembled to provide information and aid your appreciation for computer science history.

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   1. ABC

   2. ACSL

   3. Ada

   4. Alef

   5. Algol

   6. Algol68

   7. APL

   8. AppleScript

   9. AutoIt

  10. Autolisp

  11. Awk

  12. BASIC

  13. BCPL

  14. Befunge

  15. BETA

  16. BLISS

  17. BLooP

  18. C

  19. C#

  20. C*

  21. C++

  22. Cecil

  23. CFML

  24. CHILL

  25. Cilk

  26. CLAIRE

  27. Clean

  28. CLU

  29. CMS-2

  30. COBOL

  31. Common Lisp

  32. Concurrent Clean

  33. Concurrent Pascal

  34. CORAL 66

  35. CorelScript

  36. csh

  37. CSP

  38. cT

  39. Curry

  40. Dylan

  41. Dynace

  42. Eiffel

  43. Elisp

  44. Erlang

  45. Escher

  46. Esterel

  47. Euphoria

  48. FLooP

  49. FORMAC

  50. Forms/3

  51. Forth

  52. FORTRAN

  53. FP

  54. Goedel

  55. GPSS

  56. Haskell

  57. Hope

  58. HyperTalk

  59. ICI

  60. Icon

  61. INTERCAL

  62. Interlisp

  63. J

  64. Java

  65. JavaScript

  66. Jovial

  67. Leda

  68. LIFE

  69. Limbo

  70. Lingo

  71. Lisp

  72. Logo

  73. LotusScript

  74. Lua

  75. Lucid

  76. M

  77. Magma

  78. Mathematica

  79. Mawl

  80. Mercury

  81. Miranda

  82. ML

  83. Modula 3

  84. Modula-2

  85. MUMPS

  86. NESL

  87. NIAL

  88. Oberon

  89. Objective-C

  90. Obliq

  91. occam

  92. OPS5

  93. Orca

  94. Oz

  95. Pascal

  96. PerfectScript

  97. Perl

  98. PHP

  99. Pict

 100. Pike

 101. Pilot

 102. PL/C

 103. PL/I

 104. Postscript

 105. Prolog

 106. Python

 107. QBasic

 108. Quake-C

 109. REBOL

 110. Reduce

 111. Rexx

 112. RPG

 113. Ruby

 114. S

 115. Sather

 116. Scheme

 117. Self

 118. SETL

 119. sh

 120. Simscript

 121. SIMULA

 122. Sina

 123. SISAL

 124. SLAM

 125. Smalltalk

 126. SML

 127. SNOBOL

 128. SPARCL

 129. SPITBOL

 130. T

 131. Tcl

 132. TECO

 133. Telescript

 134. Terse

 135. TeX

 136. Theta

 137. Turing

 138. UFO

 139. Until

 140. VBScript

 141. VHDL

 142. Visual Basic

 143. WordBasic

 144. xlisp

 145. Yorick

 146. ZPL

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Information about the dictionary:

• Dictionary working master list
• Questions and Answers about this project
• How entries get added to the dictionary
• Perl source code for CGI back-end

Here are some other sites that have surveys or dictionaries of programming languages.

NCSA Computing Languages List

Pretty broad list, with short descriptions and links for most entries. Also includes some data-description and formatting languages.
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Tunes Review of Programming Languages

As part of the TUNES project, F. Rideau is examining all existing languages, operating systems, virtual machines, and UI systems. This language list is pretty broad, contains both subjective and objective critique of the various languages, and the related reviews under the main reviews page are also pretty cool.
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More Programming Language Resource Links..

Some more resource links with descriptions.

 

WWW Virtual Library: Computing, Programming Languages

A nice list, not exceptionally broad, but with links for every topic.
[Large flat HTML file, many links]

THE Language List

The largest and most comprehensive list on the net, and a fine job by the CUI group at University of Geneva and Bill Kinnersley. This list has a very good search capability, and many of the entries have links to FTP sites for compilers and tools. Unfortunately, some of the links on the list are a little out of date, but its source attribution and journal references are great.

[Very large searchable database]

Descriptions in this dictionary are ©1997-99 Neal Ziring. Some examples copyright of their respective authors. Some technologies and languages are trademarked. Permission to copy descriptions is granted as long as authorship credit is preserved.

Comments on this dictionary, corrections and suggestions, are all welcome. Please use email, the address is ziring@home.com