Redigerer Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk (avsnitt)

== 1980-tallet ==
|-
| C, SIMULA 67
| 1980
| '''[[C with Classes]]'''
| [[Bjarne Stroustrup|Stroustrup]]
|-
| Smalltalk-76
| 1980
| '''[[Smalltalk|Smalltalk-80]]'''
| [[PARC|Xerox PARC]]
|-
| Smalltalk, C
| 1982
| '''[[Objective-C]]'''
| [[Brad Cox]]
|-
| Green
| 1983
| '''[[Ada (programmeringsspråk)|Ada 83]]'''
| Det amerikanske forsvarsdep.
|-
| C with Classes
| 1983
| '''[[C plus plus|C++]]'''
| [[Bjarne Stroustrup|Stroustrup]]
|-
| BASIC
| 1983
| '''[[True BASIC]]'''
| [[John George Kemeny|Kemeny]], [[Thomas Kurtz|Kurtz]] ved [[Dartmouth College]]
|-
| [[COBOL]]
| 1983?
| '''[[ABAP]]''' 
| [[SAP (programvare)|SAP]]
|-
| sh
| 1984?
| '''[[Korn Shell]]''' (''ksh'')
| [[Dave Korn]]
|-
| *
| 1984
| '''[[SML (programmeringsspråk)|Standard ML]]'''
|-
| dBase
| 1984
| '''[[Clipper (programmeringsspråk)|CLIPPER]]'''
| [[Nantucket]]
|-
| LISP
| 1984
| '''[[Common Lisp]]'''
| [[Guy Steele]] med flere
|-
| 1977MUMPS
| 1985
| '''[[MUMPS|1984 MUMPS]]'''
|-
| dBase
| 1985
| '''[[ObjectPAL|PARADOX]]'''
| [[Borland]]
|-
| [[Interpress]]
| 1985
| '''[[PostScript]]'''
| [[John Warnock|Warnock]]
|-
| BASIC
| 1985
| '''[[Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler|QuickBASIC]]'''
| [[Microsoft]]
|-
|
| 1986
| '''[[Miranda (programmeringsspråk)|Miranda]]'''
| [[David Turner (informatiker)|David Turner]] hos [[University of Kent]]
|-
|
| 1986
| '''[[LabVIEW]]'''
| [[National Instruments]]
|-
| SIMULA 67
| 1986
| '''[[Eiffel (programmeringsspråk)|Eiffel]]'''
| [[Bertrand Meyer|Meyer]]
|-
| 
| 1986
| '''[[Informix-4GL]]'''
| [[Informix]]
|-
| C
| 1986
| '''[[PROMAL]]'''
| 
|-
| Smalltalk
| 1987
| '''[[Self (programmeringsspråk)|Self]]''' (konsept)
| [[Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems Inc.]]
|-
| *
| 1987
| '''[[HyperTalk]]'''
| [[Apple Computer|Apple]]
|-
| *
| 1987
| '''[[SQL|SQL-87]]'''
|-
| C, sed, awk, sh
| 1987
| '''[[Perl]]'''
| [[Larry Wall|Wall]]
|-
| [[MATLAB]]
| 1988
| '''[[GNU Octave|Octave]]'''
|-
| dBase-III
| 1988
| '''[[dBase|dBase-IV]]'''
|-
| Awk, Lisp
| 1988
| '''[[Tcl]]'''
| [[John Ousterhout|Ousterhout]]
|-
| REXX
| 1988
| '''[[REXX|Object REXX]]'''
| [[Simon Nash]]
|-
| Ada
| 1988
| '''[[SPARK (programmeringsspråk)|SPARK]]'''
| [[Bernard A. Carré]]
|-
| Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal
| 1989
| '''[[Turbo Pascal#5.5.2B Object Pascal|Turbo Pascal OOP]]'''
| [[Anders Hejlsberg|Hejlsberg]] ved [[Borland]]
|-
| C
| 1989
| '''[[Standard C (programmeringsspråk)|Standard C89/90]]'''
| [[ANSI]] X3.159-1989 (adopted by ISO in 1990)
|-
| Modula-2
| 1989
| '''[[Modula-3]]'''
| Cardeli med flere
|-
| Modula-2
| 1989
| '''[[Oberon (programmeringsspråk)|Oberon]]'''
| [[Niklaus Wirth|Wirth]]
|-
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