Programming languages of the 1990s
Every programming language in the Atlas that first appeared in the 1990s — 28 entries.
| Name | Years | Status | Family | Creator / origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haskell | 1990– | Alive | ML | Haskell committee |
| J | 1990– | Alive | APL | Iverson & Roger Hui |
| Z shellzsh | 1990– | Alive | shell | Paul Falstad |
| Python | 1991– | Alive | Python | Guido van Rossum / CWI |
| Sather | 1991– | Dead | Independent | ICSI Berkeley |
| Visual BasicVB, VB6 | 1991– | Dead | BASIC | Microsoft / Alan Cooper (Tripod prototype) |
| Dylan | 1992– | Dormant | Lisp | Apple / CMU / Harlequin |
| AppleScript | 1993– | Maintenance | Independent | Apple |
| Befunge | 1993– | Maintenance | Esoteric | Chris Pressey |
| Brainfuck | 1993– | Maintenance | Esoteric | Urban Müller |
| K | 1993– | Alive | APL | Arthur Whitney / Kx |
| Lua | 1993– | Alive | Lua | Ierusalimschy, de Figueiredo & Celes / PUC-Rio |
| R | 1993– | Alive | S | Ihaka & Gentleman / Auckland |
| Pike | 1994– | Dormant | C | Fredrik Hübinette / Roxen |
| ColdFusionCFML | 1995– | Maintenance | Independent | Allaire / Adobe |
| DelphiObject Pascal | 1995– | Alive | Pascal | Anders Hejlsberg / Borland |
| Java | 1995– | Alive | C | James Gosling / Sun Microsystems |
| JavaScript | 1995– | Alive | C | Brendan Eich / Netscape |
| Mercury | 1995– | Dormant | Prolog | Zoltan Somogyi et al / Melbourne |
| OzMozart | 1995– | Dormant | Independent | Gert Smolka / DFKI Saarbrücken |
| PHP | 1995– | Alive | C | Rasmus Lerdorf |
| RacketPLT Scheme | 1995– | Alive | Lisp | PLT (Flatt, Felleisen et al) |
| Ruby | 1995– | Alive | Ruby | Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto |
| OCaml | 1996– | Alive | ML | Xavier Leroy et al / INRIA |
| VBScript | 1996– | Dead | BASIC | Microsoft |
| REBOL | 1997– | Dormant | REBOL | Carl Sassenrath |
| Malbolge | 1998– | Dead | Esoteric | Ben Olmstead |
| Unlambda | 1999– | Dead | Esoteric | David Madore |