Programming Languages History 1940-1979 By elant Period: 1940 to 1979 Programming Languages History 1940-1979 1943 ENIAC coding system 1947 ARC Assembly 1954 Mark I Autocode 1954 Fortran (concept) 1956 LISP (concept) 1957 Fortran I (implementation) 1958 ALGOL 58 (IAL) 1958 Fortran II 1958 1959 COBOL (concept) 1964 BASIC 1967 Simula 67 (implementation) 1968 LOGO 1972 Smalltalk-72 1972 C 1972 Prolog 1972 Structured Query language (SQL) 1978 C shell 1978 1979 Vulcan dBase-II