Programming languages of the 1980s

Every programming language in the Atlas that first appeared in the 1980s — 28 entries.

Decade1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

FamilyC 29 Independent 24 ML 14 ALGOL 11 BASIC 9 Esoteric 9 Lisp 8 shell 7 Pascal 6 Forth 4 APL 3 Erlang 3 Prolog 3 Python 3

StatusAlive Maintenance Dormant Dead Lost Superseded

Name	Years	Status	Family	Creator / origin
Ada	1980–	Alive	Ada	Jean Ichbiah team / CII-Honeywell Bull for US DoD
ABAP	1983–	Alive	COBOL	SAP
KornShellksh	1983–	Maintenance	shell	David Korn / Bell Labs
Standard MLSML	1983–	Dormant	ML	Milner, Morris, Newey et al / Edinburgh & Bell Labs
VHDL	1983–	Alive	HDL	US DoD / Intermetrics
occam	1983–	Dead	Independent	David May / INMOS
Common Lisp	1984–	Alive	Lisp	X3J13 committee
MATLAB	1984–	Alive	MATLAB	Cleve Moler / MathWorks
Objective-C	1984–	Maintenance	C	Brad Cox & Tom Love / Stepstone
PostScript	1984–	Alive	Forth	Warnock & Geschke / Adobe
Verilog	1984–	Alive	HDL	Phil Moorby / Gateway Design
C++	1985–	Alive	C	Bjarne Stroustrup / Bell Labs
Clipper	1985–	Dead	xBase	Nantucket
Miranda	1985–	Dead	ML	David Turner
Eiffel	1986–	Maintenance	Independent	Bertrand Meyer / Eiffel Software
Erlang	1986–	Alive	Erlang	Armstrong, Virding & Williams / Ericsson
ABC	1987–	Dead	Independent	Leo Geurts / CWI
Clean	1987–	Dormant	ML	University of Nijmegen
HyperTalk	1987–	Dead	Independent	Bill Atkinson & Dan Winkler / Apple
Oberon	1987–	Dormant	Pascal	Niklaus Wirth
Perl	1987–	Alive	Perl	Larry Wall
Self	1987–	Dormant	Smalltalk	David Ungar & Randall Smith / Stanford & Sun
Modula-3	1988–	Dead	Pascal	Cardelli et al / DEC SRC & Olivetti
Tcl	1988–	Maintenance	Independent	John Ousterhout
Wolfram LanguageMathematica	1988–	Alive	Independent	Stephen Wolfram
Bash	1989–	Alive	shell	Brian Fox / GNU Project
FoxProVisual FoxPro	1989–2015	Dead	xBase	Fox Software / Microsoft
RocqCoq	1989–	Alive	ML	Thierry Coquand / INRIA