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The Presentation Guide document is available online.

This page is under construction. I will be assigning presentation dates soon. (The given years indicate early development or "first appeared" dates; they are somewhat misleading because it often took a number of years before compilers for these languages were widely available and they started to be used beyond their original research groups. A second date appears if there is a later, more famous/influential release.)

Plankalkül (mid-1940's, 1948):

B-0, FLOW-MATIC (1955):

FORTRAN (1957, 1962 — Fortran IV; 1990 is a much later variation):

Lisp (1958):

COBOL (1959):

Algol (1958, 1960):

SNOBOL (1962):

APL (1966):

BASIC (1964):

Simula (1962, 1967):

PL/1 (1964):

Pascal (1970):

C (1972):

Prolog (1972):

ML (early 1970's):

Modula-2 (1978):

awk (1977):

Smalltalk (1972, 1980), Squeak (1996):

Ada (1980-81):

Objective C (1983):

C++ (1983):

Eiffel (1986):

Perl (1987):

Haskell (1990):

Python (1991):

Visual Basic (1991):

Lua (1993):

R (1993):

Java (1995):

PHP (1995):

Ruby (1995):

Javascript (1995):

C# (2000):

Scratch (2003):

Scala (2003):

Go (2009):

Rust (2010):

Swift (2014):

In addition to the programming languages listed above, presentations on XML, Config, and YAML could be interesting, as could a presentation on SQL (1972). If there are other languages that someone would like to present on, please contact me; if we have enough coverage of the fundamental, historical languages, then I'm happy to consider a variety of other possibilities.