Programming languages of the 1970s
Every programming language in the Atlas that first appeared in the 1970s — 22 entries.
| Name | Years | Status | Family | Creator / origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLISS | 1970– | Dead | ALGOL | W. A. Wulf / Carnegie Mellon & DEC |
| Forth | 1970– | Alive | Forth | Charles 'Chuck' Moore |
| Pascal | 1970– | Maintenance | Pascal | Niklaus Wirth |
| C | 1972– | Alive | C | Dennis Ritchie / Bell Labs |
| INTERCAL | 1972– | Maintenance | Esoteric | Lyon & Woods / Princeton |
| Prolog | 1972– | Alive | Prolog | Alain Colmerauer & Philippe Roussel / Marseille |
| Smalltalk | 1972– | Alive | Smalltalk | Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg / Xerox PARC |
| ML | 1973– | Superseded | ML | Robin Milner et al / Edinburgh |
| CLU | 1974– | Dead | ALGOL | Barbara Liskov / MIT |
| COMALCOMAL 80 | 1974– | Dead | BASIC | Børge Christensen & Benedict Løfstedt |
| SQL | 1974– | Alive | SQL | Chamberlin & Boyce / IBM |
| Modula | 1975–1977 | Dead | Pascal | Niklaus Wirth |
| Scheme | 1975– | Alive | Lisp | Guy Steele & Gerald Sussman / MIT |
| S | 1976– | Superseded | S | John Chambers / Bell Labs |
| AWK | 1977– | Alive | C | Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan / Bell Labs |
| FP | 1977–1985 | Dead | Independent | John Backus / IBM |
| Icon | 1977– | Dormant | SNOBOL | Ralph Griswold / University of Arizona |
| C shellcsh, tcsh | 1978– | Dormant | shell | Bill Joy / Berkeley |
| Modula-2 | 1978– | Maintenance | Pascal | Niklaus Wirth |
| Bourne shellsh | 1979– | Superseded | shell | Stephen Bourne / Bell Labs |
| REXX | 1979– | Maintenance | REXX | Mike Cowlishaw / IBM |
| dBase | 1979– | Dead | xBase | Wayne Ratliff / Ashton-Tate |