Assembly
1949Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
Explore 75+ Programming Languages
CodeArchaeology
Unearthing programming languages from the popular to the obscure
Discover how languages old and new still run on modern machines — macOS, Windows, and Docker. From FORTRAN to Rust, every language has a story to tell.
hello_world.history
// 1957 - FORTRAN
WRITE(*,*) 'Hello, World!'
// 1972 - C
printf("Hello, World!\n");
// 1995 - Java
System.out.println("Hello!");
// 2015 - Rust
println!("Hello, World!");Featured Languages
Start your journey through programming history
Java
1995Java is one of the most influential programming languages ever created. Designed with the philosophy of “Write …
Carbon
2022Carbon is an experimental programming language designed at Google as a potential successor to C++. Announced publicly in …
C
1972C is arguably the most influential programming language ever created. Developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, …
Fortran
1957Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
BASIC
1964BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
Latest Posts
Recent explorations and discoveries
Leda
NewTimothy Budd's multiparadigm research language from Oregon State University, which fits imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic programming into one small, Pascal-sized language
Read more →Lasso 3.6.6
NewThe final generation of Blue World's classic tag-based Lasso - LDML, the square-bracket web language that put FileMaker Pro, 4D and ODBC databases on the web from Mac OS and Windows servers, last updated as Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6 in November 2000
Read more →Lasso 8.1
NewOmniPilot's September 2005 performance release of Lasso Professional 8 - the tag-based, object-oriented web language (LDML/LassoScript) for Mac OS X, Windows and Red Hat Linux servers, with more than 100 changes and 19 new tags
Read more →A comprehensive catalog of 1,200+ programming languages from computing history, with dates, status, paradigms, and categories.
Read more →LANS (LANguard Scripting), the small proprietary language GFI built into LANguard Network Security Scanner 3 for writing custom vulnerability checks, replaced by a VBScript-compatible engine in 2004
Read more →LAMBDA, the built-in command and programming language of DIAS, the interactive image-processing system developed by Klaus Voss's Digital Image Processing Group at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Read more →Ready to Start Digging?
Every language guide includes working code examples, Docker images for instant setup, and progressive tutorials from Hello World to advanced topics.