Stanford CS Department history

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Background image: SU Computer-Lab Seized by Vietnam protesters (1965)

Computer languages

At the bottom of the cabinet is a list of the primary computer languages taught at Stanford, and a 1960 assembly coding sheet.

Language	years	compiler	machine
Board wiring	1953-56	none	IBM CPC	picture across the hall
Assembler	1956-60	SOAP II	IBM 650
Algol 58	1960-65	Balgol	Burroughs 220
FORTRAN (Formula translator)	1963-67	FORTRAN II	IBM 7090
Symbolic Assembler Language	1963-67	SAP	IBM 7090	picture across the hall
Algol 60	1963-68	Algol	Burroughs 5500
Algol W	1968-75	Wirth's Algol W compiler	IBM/360
PL/1 subset	1966-72	PL/ACME	IBM/360-50
FORTRAN	1975	FORTRAN IV	IBM/370
Polymorphic Programming Language	~1973	Tim Standish PPL	IBM/370
ALGOL 60 +	1976-77	SAIL	DEC 10
PASCAL	1978-91	LOTS	DEC-10
C	1991-2001	THINK/Thetis	Macintosh/PC
C++	2001-present	gcc	Macintosh/PC/linux
Java	2001- present	javac	Macintosh/PC

Language information provided by Claire Stager and Eric Roberts. 709 Coding Sheet courtesy of Regina Frey, at Stanford's ACME project 1966-1975.