Programming languages of the 1960s
Every programming language in the Atlas that first appeared in the 1960s — 16 entries.
| Name | Years | Status | Family | Creator / origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALGOL 60 | 1960–1980 | Dead | ALGOL | International committee (Backus, Naur, van Wijngaarden et al) |
| JOVIALJ73 | 1960– | Dead | ALGOL | Jules Schwartz / SDC |
| SNOBOLSNOBOL4 | 1962– | Dead | SNOBOL | Farber, Griswold, Polonsky / Bell Labs |
| CPLCombined Programming Language | 1963–1967 | Dead | ALGOL | Cambridge & London universities |
| JOSS | 1963–1969 | Dead | Independent | Cliff Shaw / RAND |
| Dartmouth BASICBASIC | 1964– | Superseded | BASIC | John Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz / Dartmouth |
| PL/I | 1964– | Maintenance | ALGOL | IBM / SHARE committee |
| ALGOL W | 1966–1972 | Dead | ALGOL | Niklaus Wirth & Tony Hoare / Stanford |
| APLAPL\360 | 1966– | Alive | APL | Kenneth E. Iverson |
| Coral 66 | 1966– | Dead | ALGOL | Royal Radar Establishment |
| MUMPSM | 1966– | Maintenance | MUMPS | Neil Pappalardo et al / Mass General |
| BCPL | 1967– | Dead | BCPL | Martin Richards / Cambridge |
| Logo | 1967– | Dormant | Lisp | Papert, Feurzeig, Solomon / BBN |
| SimulaSimula 67 | 1967– | Dead | ALGOL | Ole-Johan Dahl & Kristen Nygaard / Norsk Regnesentral |
| ALGOL 68 | 1968– | Dormant | ALGOL | IFIP WG 2.1 (van Wijngaarden et al) |
| B | 1969–1972 | Dead | BCPL | Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie / Bell Labs |