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The oldest programming languages

#	Language	First appeared
1	Plankalkül	1942
2	ENIAC coding system	1943
3	ENIAC Short Code	1946
4	Von Neumann and Goldstine graphing system	1946
5	CPC Coding scheme	1948
6	Curry notation system	1948
7	Assembly language	1949
8	Birkbeck Assembler	1950
9	Short Code	1950
10	ALGAE	1951
11	Boehm unnamed coding system	1951
12	Intermediate Programming Language	1951
13	Klammerausdrücke	1951
14	OMNIBAC Symbolic Assembler	1951
15	Regional Assembly Language	1951
16	Rochester assembler	1951
17	Sort Merge Generator	1951
18	Stanislaus	1951
19	Superplan	1951
20	Whirlwind assembler	1951
21	COMPOOL	1952
22	Editing Generator	1952
23	Autocode	1952
24	READ/PRINT	1953
25	Speedcoding	1953
26	ARITH-MATIC	1954
27	Laning and Zierler system	1954
28	MATRIX MATH	1954
29	Address programming language	1955
30	BACAIC	1955
31	FLOW-MATIC	1955
32	Freiburger Code	1955
33	Internal Translator	1955
34	PACT	1955
35	PRINT	1955
36	Sequentielle Formelübersetzung	1955
37	Information Processing Language	1956
38	COMIT	1957
39	COMTRAN	1957
40	Fortran	1957
41	GEORGE	1957
42	MATH-MATIC	1957
43	UNICODE	1957
44	Lisp	1958
45	UNCOL	1958
46	ALGOL	1959
47	COBOL	1959
48	FACT	1959
49	MAD	1959
50	RPG	1959
51	JOVIAL	1960
52	ALGO	1961
53	CORC	1962
54	Language H	1962
55	SIMSCRIPT	1962
56	SNOBOL	1962
57	Simula	1962
58	TECO	1962
59	CPL	1963
60	JOSS	1963
61	TMG	1963
62	BASIC	1964
63	COWSEL	1964
64	Coral 66	1964
65	FORMAC	1964
66	LYaPAS	1964
67	MARK IV	1964
68	MIMIC	1964
69	PL/I	1964
70	P′′	1964
71	Speakeasy	1964
72	TRAC	1964
73	ALMIR-65	1965
74	ALTRAN	1965
75	Atlas Autocode	1965
76	Euler	1965
77	IBM RPG II	1965
78	TELCOMP	1965
79	ALGOL W	1966
80	APL	1966
81	ASSIRIS	1966
82	Data Language Interface	1966
83	Edinburgh IMP	1966
84	Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language	1966
85	ISWIM	1966
86	MUMPS	1966
87	PL360	1966
88	ABSYS	1967
89	BCPL	1967
90	Interlisp	1967
91	Logo	1967
92	Space Programming Language	1967
93	XPL	1967
94	Analitik	1968
95	CICS	1968
96	CMS-2	1968
97	FOCAL	1968
98	MAPPER	1968
99	PILOT	1968
100	Refal	1968

Top 100 entries with a recorded value; entries without data are not ranked.