Generational list of programming languages

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This is a "genealogy" of programming languages. Languages are categorized under the ancestor language with the strongest influence. Those ancestor languages are listed in alphabetic order. Any such categorization has a large arbitrary element, since programming languages often incorporate major ideas from multiple sources.

ALGOL based

ALGOL (also under Fortran)
- Atlas Autocode
- ALGOL 58 (IAL, International Algorithmic Language)
  - MAD and GOM (Michigan Algorithm Decoder and Good Old MAD)
- ALGOL 60
  - MAD/I
  - Simula (see also Simula based)
  - SETL
    - ABC
      - Python
        Julia (also under Lisp, Ruby, ALGOL)
        
        Nim (also under Oberon)
        
        Ring (also under C, BASIC, Ruby, C#, Lua)^[1]
        
        Swift (also under Ruby, Objective-C, and Haskell)
        
        Boo
        
        Cobra (syntax and features)
- ALGOL 68
- ALGOL W
  - Pascal
    - Ada
      - SPARK
      - PL/SQL
    - Turbo Pascal
      - Object Pascal (Delphi)
        Free Pascal (FPC)
        
        Kylix (same as Delphi, but for Linux)
    - Euclid
      - Concurrent Euclid
      - Turing
        Turing+ (Turing Plus)
        
        Object-Oriented Turing
    - Mesa
      - Modula-2
        Modula-3
        
        Oberon (Oberon-1)
        Go (also under C)
        V (Vlang)
        
        Nim (also under Python)
        
        Oberon-2
        Component Pascal
        
        Active Oberon
        Zonnon
        
        Oberon-07
        
        Lua (also under Scheme and SNOBOL)
        Ring (also under C, BASIC, Ruby, Python, C#)^[1]
    - SUE
      - Plus
- CPL
  - BCPL
    - B
      - C (see also C based)

APL based

APL
- A+
- J (also under FL)
- K (also under LISP)
- NESL
- PDL (also under Perl)

BASIC based

BASIC (also under Fortran II)
- AmigaBASIC
- AMOS BASIC
- BASIC Stamp
- Basic-256
- BASIC09
- BBC Basic
- Blitz BASIC
  - Blitz3D
  - BlitzMax
  - BlitzPlus
- Business Basic
- Caché Basic
- Chinese BASIC
- COMAL
- Commodore BASIC
- DarkBASIC
  - DarkBASIC Professional
- Dartmouth BASIC
  - HP Time-Shared BASIC
    - Integer BASIC or Apple BASIC
  - Tiny BASIC
    - Atari BASIC
- Euphoria
- GLBasic
- GRASS
- Altair BASIC
  - Microsoft BASIC
    - GW-BASIC
      - QuickBASIC
        QBasic
        Basic4GL
        
        FreeBASIC
        
        Liberty BASIC
        Run BASIC
        
        Visual Basic
        VBScript
        
        Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
        LotusScript
        
        Visual Basic .NET
        Small Basic
        
        B4X
        
        Basic for Qt
        
        OpenOffice Basic
        
        HBasic
        
        Gambas
        
        WinWrap Basic
        
        WordBasic
        
        QB64
- PureBasic
- REALbasic (Xojo)
- Ring (also under C, Ruby, Python, C#, Lua)^[1]
- TI-BASIC
- True BASIC
- Turbo Basic
  - PowerBASIC
- wxBasic
  - SdlBasic
    - RCBasic
- XBasic
- YaBasic

Batch languages

C based

C (also under BCPL)
- Lua
- Alef
- C++
  - Rust (also under Cyclone, Haskell, and OCaml)
  - D
- C#
  - Windows PowerShell (also under DCL, ksh, and Perl)
  - Ring (also under BASIC, Ruby, Python, Lua)^[1]
- Cobra (class/object model and other features)
- Java (see also Java based)
- C--
- Cyclone
  - Rust (also under C++, Haskell, and OCaml)
- ColdFusion
- Go (also under Oberon)
  - V (Vlang)
- Harbour
  - Limbo
- LPC
  - Pike
- Objective-C (also under Smalltalk)
  - Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Haskell)
- PCASTL (also under Lisp)
- Perl
  - Windows PowerShell (also under C#, DCL, and ksh)
  - S2
  - PHP
  - Ruby (also under Smalltalk)
    - Julia (also under Lisp, Python, ALGOL)
    - Ring (also under C, BASIC, Python, C#, Lua)^[1]
    - Swift (also under Objective-C, Python, and Haskell)
    - Crystal
    - Elixir^{[citation needed]} (also under Erlang)
  - PDL (also under APL)
  - Raku
- QuakeC
- Ring (also under BASIC, Ruby, Python, C#, Lua) ^[1]
- tcsh (also under sh)

C# based

C#
- Chapel
- Clojure
- Crystal
- D
- J#
- Dart
- F#
- Hack
- Java
- Kotlin
- Nemerle
- Oxygene
- Ring^[1]
- Rust
- Swift
- Vala
- TypeScript

COBOL based

COBOL
- ABAP
- DIBOL
- WATBOL

COMIT based

COMIT
- SNOBOL
  - Icon
    - Unicon
  - Lua (also under Modula and Scheme)
    - Ring (also under C, BASIC, Ruby, Python, C#)^[1]

DCL based

DCL
- Windows PowerShell (also under C#, ksh, and Perl)

ed based

ed (programming language)
- sed
- AWK
  - Perl (also under C)

Eiffel based

Eiffel
- Cobra (design by contract)
- Sather
- Ubercode

Forth based

Forth
- InterPress
  - PostScript
- Joy
  - Factor
- Rebol (also under Lisp)
- RPL (also under Lisp)

Fortran based

Fortran
- Fortran II
  - BASIC (see also BASIC based)
  - SAKO
- Fortran IV
  - WATFOR
  - WATFIV
- Fortran 66
  - FORMAC
  - Ratfor
- Fortran 77
  - WATFOR-77
  - Ratfiv
- Fortran 90
- Fortran 95
  - F
- Fortran 2003
- Fortran 2008
- Fortran 2018
- ALGOL (see also ALGOL based)

FP based

FP (Function Programming)
- FL (Function Level)
  - J (also under APL)
- FPr (also under Lisp and object-oriented programming)

HyperTalk based

HyperTalk
- ActionScript (also under JavaScript)
- AppleScript
- LiveCode (Formerly Transcript)
- SenseTalk
- SuperTalk

Java based

Java (also under C)
- Ateji PX
- C#
- Ceylon
- Fantom
- Apache Groovy
- OptimJ
- Processing
- Scala
- Join Java
- J#
- Kotlin
- X10

JavaScript based

JavaScript (also under Scheme, Self)
- ActionScript (also under HyperTalk)
  - Haxe
- Asm.js
- CoffeeScript
- ECMAScript
- JavaScript OSA
- JScript
- TypeScript
  - AssemblyScript

JOSS based

JOSS
- CAL
- TELCOMP
- FOCAL
- MUMPS
  - Caché ObjectScript

JOSS also inspired features for several versions of BASIC, including Tymshare's SUPER BASIC and DEC's BASIC-PLUS.

Lisp based

Lisp
- Arc
- AutoLISP
- Clojure
- Common Lisp
  - uLisp (A subset of Common Lisp for microcontrollers)
- Emacs Lisp
- ISLISP
- Interlisp
- Julia (has Lisp-like macros, but ALGOL-like syntax) (also under Python, Ruby, ALGOL)
- K (also under APL)
- LFE
- Logo
  - Turtle graphics
- MacLisp
- Nu programming language
- PicoLisp
- REBOL
  - Red (programming language)
- RPL (also under Forth)
- S
  - R
    - PCASTL (also under ALGOL)
- Scheme
  - GNU Guile
  - Racket
  - Hop
  - Pico
  - T
  - Lua (also under Modula and SNOBOL)
    - Ring (also under C, BASIC, Ruby, Python, C#)^[1]
  - JavaScript (also based on Self)
  - ECMAScript (also based on Self)

ML based

ML
- Standard ML (SML)
- Caml
  - OCaml
    - F#
    - Reason
    - Rust (also under C++, Cyclone, and Haskell)

PL/I based

PL/I
- PL/M
- PL/C
- REXX
  - Object Rexx (also under Smalltalk)
- SP/k
- XPL

Prolog based

Prolog
- CLP(R), CLP(FD)
- Mercury
- Erlang
  - Cuneiform
  - Elixir^[2] (also under Ruby)
- Logtalk

SASL based

SASL
- Kent Recursive Calculator
- Miranda
  - Haskell
    - Agda
    - Elm
    - Idris
    - Rust (also under C++, Cyclone, and OCaml)
    - Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Objective-C)
    - PureScript
  - Nix

SETL based

SETL
- ABC
  - Python (also under ALGOL)
    - Julia (also under Lisp, Ruby, ALGOL)
    - Nim (also under Oberon)
    - Ring (also under C, BASIC, Ruby, C#, Lua)^[1]
    - Swift (also under Ruby, Objective-C, and Haskell)
    - Boo
    - Cobra (syntax and features)

sh based

Sh
- bash
- csh (also under C)
  - tcsh
  - Hamilton C shell
- fish
- zsh
- ksh
  - Windows PowerShell (also under C#, DCL, and Perl)
  - Qshell

Simula based

Simula (also under ALGOL 60)
- C++ (also under C)
- Smalltalk
  - Objective-C (hybrid of C and Smalltalk)
    - Swift (also under Ruby, Python, and Haskell)
    - Cobra (support both dynamic and static types)
  - Ruby (also under Perl)
    - Swift (also under Objective-C, Python, and Haskell)
    - Elixir^{[citation needed]} (also under Erlang)
  - Self
    - JavaScript (also under Scheme) (see also JavaScript based)
    - NewtonScript
      - Io
  - Object Rexx (also under REXX)
- BETA

Tcl based

Tcl
- Expect
- Tea

Others

References

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Generational list of programming languages

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ALGOL based

APL based

BASIC based

Batch languages

C based

C# based

COBOL based

COMIT based

DCL based

ed based

Eiffel based

Forth based

Fortran based

FP based

HyperTalk based

Java based

JavaScript based

JOSS based

Lisp based

ML based

PL/I based

Prolog based

SASL based

SETL based

sh based

Simula based

Tcl based

Others

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Generational list of programming languages

ALGOL based

APL based

BASIC based

Batch languages

C based

C# based

COBOL based

COMIT based

DCL based

ed based

Eiffel based

Forth based

Fortran based

FP based

HyperTalk based

Java based

JavaScript based

JOSS based

Lisp based

ML based

PL/I based

Prolog based

SASL based

SETL based

sh based

Simula based

Tcl based

Others

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