ROSTER OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR 1974-1975

This roster contains a list of 167 currently existing higher-level languages which have been developed or reported in the United States; have been implemented on at least one general-purpose computer; and are believed to be in use in the United States by someone other than the developer. A programming ( equals higher-level) language is defined as a set of characters and rules for combining them which has the following characteristics: the language requires no knowledge of machine code by the user; the language is significantly independent of a particular computer; there is a one-many translation of instructions from source code to object code; and the notation of the language is fairly natural to its problem area and is not a fixed tabular format. Of the total of 167 languages, 79 are in categories: numerical scientific, business data processing, list processing, string processing, formula manipulation, and multipurpose. The remaining 88 are in various specilized application areas.