The following table shows the launch times and years of some mainstream high-level programming languages.
High-level language | Release time | Age |
| FORTRAN | 1957 | 57 years old |
| LISP | 1959 | 55 years old |
| COBOL | 1961 | 53 years old |
| BASIC | 1964 | 50 years old |
| Pascal | 1970 | 44 years old |
| C | 1972 | 42 years old |
| MATLAB | 1978 | 36 years old |
| SQL | 1978 | 36 years old |
| Objective-C | 1983 | 31 years old |
| C++ | 1983 | 31 years old |
| Perl | 1987 | 27 years old |
| Erlang | 1987 | 27 years old |
| Python | 1991 | 23 years old |
| Ruby | 1993 | 21 years old |
| Lua | 1993 | 21 years old |
| PHP | 1994 | 20 years old |
| Java | 1995 | 19 years old |
| JavaScript | 1996 | 18 years old |
| D | 2000 | 14 years old |
| C# | 2000 | 14 years old |
| Go | 2009 | 5 years old |