List of Programming Languages and Their Developers (2024)

Last Updated: 27 November 2023

Do You Know Which Programming Language Is The First High-Level Language?

Well, It was FORTRAN which is also known as Formula Translation, Formula Translator that was created in 1954 by John Backus at IBM.

In this article, You can learn all the Popular Programming Language that was ever created to Compute and Solve Human Problems and Increase Efficiency in Problem-Solving.

Read all the Programming Languages and Their Developers and tell us which is your favorite Programming Language.

Programming Languages and Their Developers

No.	Programming Language	Developer
1	ALGOL	Friedrich Bauer
2	AMPL	Brian Kernighan
3	Assembly Language	Kathleen Booth
4	AWK	Brian Kernighan
5	BASIC	1) John Kemeny 2) Thomas Kurtz
6	B Language	Ken Thompson
7	C Language	Dennis Ritchie
8	C++	Bjarne Stroustrup
9	C#	Anders Hejlsberg
10	Clojure	Rich Hickey
11	COBOL	Grace Murray Hopper
12	D Language	Walter Bright
13	FORTRAN	John Backus
14	Fortress	Guy Lewis Steele Jr
15	F#	Don Syme
16	GO Language	1) Rob Pike 2) Ken Thompson
17	Haskell	Philip Wadler
18	Icon	Ralph Griswold
19	Java	James Gosling
20	JavaScript	Brendan Eich
21	Limbo	Rob Pike
22	Lisp	John McCarthy
23	Lua	Roberto Ierusalimschy
24	Modula-2	Niklaus Wirth
25	Manchester Mark 1	Cicely Popplewell
26	Mathematica	Stephen Wolfram
27	Newspeak	Gilad Bracha
28	OCaml	Xavier Leroy
29	Pascal	Niklaus Wirth
30	Perl	Larry Wall
31	PHP	Rasmus Lerdorf
32	Prolog	Alain Colmerauer
33	Python	Guido van Rossum
34	R Language	1) Ross Ihaka 2) Robert Gentleman
35	Racket	Matthias Felleisen
36	Ruby	Yukihiro Matsumoto
37	Scala	Martin Odersky
38	Scheme	1) Gerald Jay Sussman 2) Guy Lewis Steele Jr
39	Simula	1) Ole-Johan Dahl 2) Kristen Nygaard
40	SL5	Ralph Griswold
41	Smalltalk	1) Alan Kay 2) Dan Ingalls
42	SNOBOL	Ralph Griswold
43	Swift	Chris Lattner
44	Tcl	John Ousterhout
45	Turbo Pascal	Anders Hejlsberg
46	Wolfram Language	Stephen Wolfram