The Big List of 256 Programming Languages
Check out a list of 256 programming languages, from ABC to Z shell.
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Join For FreeSummer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming language? I am not recommending a specific language over others at this time, but providing a long list of languages based on GitHub and TIOBE. I have not tried to categorize or validate this list of languages in any way, so please do not complain about some ancient or useless technology being listed. If you think there is a language that should be added, please leave it in a comment along with a link with information about the language, preferably on Wikipedia or the actual language site. I give no guarantees that the links for these languages are what was meant by GitHub or TIOBE, but they do not link to an official site for the languages so I did my best in finding something.
- 4th Dimension/4D
- ABAP
- ABC
- ActionScript
- Ada
- Agilent VEE
- Algol
- Alice
- Angelscript
- Apex
- APL
- AppleScript
- Arc
- Arduino
- ASP
- AspectJ
- Assembly
- ATLAS
- Augeas
- AutoHotkey
- AutoIt
- AutoLISP
- Automator
- Avenue
- Awk
- Bash
- (Visual) Basic
- bc
- BCPL
- BETA
- BlitzMax
- Boo
- Bourne Shell
- Bro
- C
- C Shell
- C#
- C++
- C++/CLI
- C-Omega
- Caml
- Ceylon
- CFML
- cg
- Ch
- CHILL
- CIL
- CL (OS/400)
- Clarion
- Clean
- Clipper
- Clojure
- CLU
- COBOL
- Cobra
- CoffeeScript
- ColdFusion
- COMAL
- Common Lisp
- Coq
- cT
- Curl
- D
- Dart
- DCL
- DCPU-16 ASM
- Delphi/Object Pascal
- DiBOL
- Dylan
- E
- eC
- Ecl
- ECMAScript
- EGL
- Eiffel
- Elixir
- Emacs Lisp
- Erlang
- Etoys
- Euphoria
- EXEC
- F#
- Factor
- Falcon
- Fancy
- Fantom
- Felix
- Forth
- Fortran
- Fortress
- (Visual) FoxPro
- Gambas
- GNU Octave
- Go
- Google AppsScript
- Gosu
- Groovy
- Haskell
- haXe
- Heron
- HPL
- HyperTalk
- Icon
- IDL
- Inform
- Informix-4GL
- INTERCAL
- Io
- Ioke
- J
- J#
- JADE
- Java
- Java FX Script
- JavaScript
- JScript
- JScript.NET
- Julia
- Korn Shell
- Kotlin
- LabVIEW
- Ladder Logic
- Lasso
- Limbo
- Lingo
- Lisp
- Logo
- Logtalk
- LotusScript
- LPC
- Lua
- Lustre
- M4
- MAD
- Magic
- Magik
- Malbolge
- MANTIS
- Maple
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- Max/MSP
- MAXScript
- MEL
- Mercury
- Mirah
- Miva
- ML
- Monkey
- Modula-2
- Modula-3
- MOO
- Moto
- MS-DOS Batch
- MUMPS
- NATURAL
- Nemerle
- Nimrod
- NQC
- NSIS
- Nu
- NXT-G
- Oberon
- Object Rexx
- Objective-C
- Objective-J
- OCaml
- Occam
- ooc
- Opa
- OpenCL
- OpenEdge ABL
- OPL
- Oz
- Paradox
- Parrot
- Pascal
- Perl
- PHP
- Pike
- PILOT
- PL/I
- PL/SQL
- Pliant
- PostScript
- POV-Ray
- PowerBasic
- PowerScript
- PowerShell
- Processing
- Prolog
- Puppet
- Pure Data
- Python
- Q
- R
- Racket
- REALBasic
- REBOL
- Revolution
- REXX
- RPG (OS/400)
- Ruby
- Rust
- S
- S-PLUS
- SAS
- Sather
- Scala
- Scheme
- Scilab
- Scratch
- sed
- Seed7
- Self
- Shell
- SIGNAL
- Simula
- Simulink
- Slate
- Smalltalk
- Smarty
- SPARK
- SPSS
- SQR
- Squeak
- Squirrel
- Standard ML
- Suneido
- SuperCollider
- TACL
- Tcl
- Tex
- thinBasic
- TOM
- Transact-SQL
- Turing
- TypeScript
- Vala/Genie
- VBScript
- Verilog
- VHDL
- VimL
- Visual Basic .NET
- WebDNA
- Whitespace
- X10
- xBase
- XBase++
- Xen
- XPL
- XSLT
- XQuery
- yacc
- Yorick
- Z shell
So, did you find one that you liked? Or did this stir up memories from long ago with languages you thought were dead and buried? Again, if there is a language you believe belongs in this list, please leave a comment and a wikipedia or official site link for the language.
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