Таблица 2. Хроника развития языков программирования (1988 - 2003)
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| Год | Язык |
| 1988 | Oberon |
| 1988 | Modula-3 |
| 1988 | Borland Object Pascal |
| 1988 | Perl 2.00 |
| 1988 | Tcl/Tk |
| 1989 | ANSI C (C89) |
| 1989 | Eiffel 2 |
| 1989 | Perl 3.00 |
| 1990 | ISO C (C90) |
| 1990 | Haskell 1.1 |
| 1990 | Scheme IEEE |
| 1991 | Oak |
| 1991 | Oberon-2 |
| 1991 | Fortran-90 ISO |
| 1991 | Visual Basic 1.0 |
| 1991 | Python |
| 1991 | Perl 4.00 |
| 1992 | PostScript Level 2 |
| 1993 | Ruby |
| 1994 | Common Lisp ANSI |
| 1994 | Perl 5.00 |
| 1995 | Java |
| 1995 | ISO C (C95) |
| 1995 | Delphi |
| 1995 | Eiffel 3 |
| 1995 | Self 4.0 |
| 1995 | Sather 1.1 |
| 1995 | PHP/FI |
| 1995 | LiveScript |
| 1995 | JavaScript |
| 1996 | Eiffel 4 |
| 1996 | APL 96 |
| 1996 | PostScript Level 3 |
| 1996 | JScript |
| Год | Язык |
| 1997 | Modula-2 ISO |
| 1997 | Fortran 95 ISO |
| 1997 | OO Cobol |
| 1997 | Prolog IV |
| 1997 | ECMAScript |
| 1997 | PHP 2.0 |
| 1998 | C++ ANSI/ISO |
| 1998 | Java 2 |
| 1998 | Visual Basic 6.0 |
| 1998 | PHP 3.0 |
| 1999 | ISO C (C99) |
| 1999 | Delphi 5 |
| 1999 | Haskell 98 |
| 2000 | C# |
| 2000 | Java 2 (1.3) |
| 2000 | Python 2.0 |
| 2000 | PHP 4.0 |
| 2001 | C# (ECMA) |
| 2001 | Delphi 6 |
| 2001 | Cobol 2002 (draft) |
| 2002 | Visual Basic .NET |
| 2002 | Delphi 7 |
| 2002 | Java 2 (1.4.1) |
| 2002 | Fortran 2000 (draft) |
| 2002 | Perl 5.8.0 |
| 2003 | C# (ISO) |
| 2003 | Zonnon |
| 2003 | Java 2 (1.4.2_01) |
| 2003 | Python 2.3 |
| 2003 | PHP 4.3.3 |
| 2003 | Ruby 1.8 |
