Timeline of programming languages

Timeline of programming languages - timeline. Article “Timeline of programming languages” in English Wikipedia has 41.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.32 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Timeline of programming languages” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Timeline of programming languages”, its content was written by 499 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 974 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 191 times in English Wikipedia and cited 757 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3 in August 2001
• Global: #3 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53208 in December 2017
• Global: #61983 in April 2010

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		47.9507
2	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		41.4616
3	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		26.5203
4	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		22.3234
5	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		22.284
6	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		20.9703
7	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		19.495
8	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		14.2606
9	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		13.8405
10	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		10.7964

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of programming languages" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		1 685 104
2	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		617 492
3	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		275 630
4	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		153 041
5	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		34 246
6	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		16 529
7	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		9 950
8	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		7 732
9	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		4 474
10	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		2 767

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of programming languages" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		3 797
2	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		844
3	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		634
4	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		257
5	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		175
6	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		124
7	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		29
8	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		17
9	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		5
10	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of programming languages" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		499
2	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		165
3	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		117
4	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		91
5	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		46
6	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		14
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		13
8	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		12
9	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		9
10	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of programming languages" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		2
2	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		1
4	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		1
5	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		0
6	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		0
7	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		0
8	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		0
9	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		0
10	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of programming languages" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 程序語言時間線		192
2	English (en) Timeline of programming languages		191
3	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія мов програмування		172
4	Norwegian (no) Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk		149
5	French (fr) Chronologie des langages de programmation		16
6	German (de) Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen		13
7	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة		10
8	Italian (it) Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione		10
9	Croatian (hr) Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika		2
10	Russian (ru) Хронология языков программирования		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التسلسل الزمني للغات البرمجة
de	German Zeittafel der Programmiersprachen
en	English Timeline of programming languages
fr	French Chronologie des langages de programmation
hr	Croatian Vremenska ljestvica razvitka programskih jezika
it	Italian Cronologia dei linguaggi di programmazione
no	Norwegian Tidslinje over programmeringsspråk
ru	Russian Хронология языков программирования
uk	Ukrainian Хронологія мов програмування
zh	Chinese 程序語言時間線

Best Rank

English: #53208 12.2017

Global: #61983 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #3 08.2001

Global: #3 08.2001

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