Timeline of major programming languages

1957 Fortran
1958 Lisp
1959 COBOL
1968 Smalltalk
1972 C
1972 Prolog
1975 Scheme
1983 C++
1986 Erlang
1987 Perl
1990 Haskell
1991 Visual Basic
1995 Java
2001 C#, VB .Net
2007 Clojure