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Independent — programming languages family

24 programming languages in the independent family.

NameYearsStatusFamilyCreator / origin
Plankalkül1948–1951DeadIndependentKonrad Zuse
Assembly languageasm1949–AliveIndependentMachine-specific (EDSAC initial orders onward)
Short Code1950–1953LostIndependentJohn Mauchly / Remington Rand
A-0 SystemA-01952–1955DeadIndependentGrace Hopper / Remington Rand
Autocode1952–1955DeadIndependentAlick Glennie / University of Manchester
FLOW-MATIC1955–1959DeadIndependentGrace Hopper / Remington Rand
COMTRAN1957–1960DeadIndependentBob Bemer / IBM
JOSS1963–1969DeadIndependentCliff Shaw / RAND
FP1977–1985DeadIndependentJohn Backus / IBM
occam1983–DeadIndependentDavid May / INMOS
Eiffel1986–MaintenanceIndependentBertrand Meyer / Eiffel Software
ABC1987–DeadIndependentLeo Geurts / CWI
HyperTalk1987–DeadIndependentBill Atkinson & Dan Winkler / Apple
Tcl1988–MaintenanceIndependentJohn Ousterhout
Wolfram LanguageMathematica1988–AliveIndependentStephen Wolfram
Sather1991–DeadIndependentICSI Berkeley
AppleScript1993–MaintenanceIndependentApple
ColdFusionCFML1995–MaintenanceIndependentAllaire / Adobe
OzMozart1995–DormantIndependentGert Smolka / DFKI Saarbrücken
Scratch2003–AliveIndependentMIT Media Lab
X102004–2017DeadIndependentIBM Research
Nim2008–AliveIndependentAndreas Rumpf
Chapel2009–AliveIndependentCray / HPE
Julia2012–AliveIndependentBezanson, Karpinski, Shah & Edelman / MIT