languages-metadata.yml

- slug: ada
  displayName: Ada
  year: 1980
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [pascal, algol]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: algol
  displayName: ALGOL
  year: 1958
  paradigm: [imperative, structured]
  influencedBy: [fortran]
  influences: [pascal, ada, cobol, the-c-programming-language, scheme, smalltalk]
  category: historical

- slug: apl
  displayName: APL
  year: 1966
  paradigm: [array, functional, imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [bqn, julia, r-project]
  category: historical

- slug: arnoldc
  displayName: ArnoldC
  year: 2013
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: ash
  displayName: Ash
  year: 1989
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [bash]
  influences: [dash]
  category: shell

- slug: ats
  displayName: ATS
  year: 2006
  paradigm: [functional, imperative]
  influencedBy: [sml, ocaml]
  influences: []
  category: ml-family

- slug: awk
  displayName: AWK
  year: 1977
  paradigm: [scripting, data-driven]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language]
  influences: [perl]
  category: shell

- slug: ballerina
  displayName: Ballerina
  year: 2017
  paradigm: [imperative, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [java, golang]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: bash
  displayName: Bash
  year: 1989
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [ash, zsh, mksh, dash]
  category: shell

- slug: befunge
  displayName: Befunge
  year: 1993
  paradigm: [stack-based, two-dimensional]
  influencedBy: [forth]
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: bqn
  displayName: BQN
  year: 2020
  paradigm: [array, functional]
  influencedBy: [apl]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: brainfuck
  displayName: Brainfuck
  year: 1993
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: ceylon
  displayName: Ceylon
  year: 2011
  paradigm: [object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [java]
  influences: []
  category: jvm

- slug: chapel
  displayName: Chapel
  year: 2009
  paradigm: [imperative, parallel]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, fortran]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: cirq
  displayName: Cirq
  year: 2018
  paradigm: [quantum-computing]
  influencedBy: [python]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: clojure
  displayName: Clojure
  year: 2007
  paradigm: [functional, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [lisp, erlang, haskell, java]
  influences: []
  category: jvm

- slug: cobol
  displayName: COBOL
  year: 1959
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [algol, fortran]
  influences: []
  category: historical

- slug: coffeescript
  displayName: CoffeeScript
  year: 2009
  paradigm: [functional, imperative]
  influencedBy: [javascript, ruby, python, haskell]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: cpp
  displayName: C++
  year: 1985
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, algol, smalltalk]
  influences: [java, csharp, rust, d-lang, golang]
  category: systems

- slug: crystal
  displayName: Crystal
  year: 2014
  paradigm: [object-oriented, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [ruby, the-c-programming-language, rust]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: csharp
  displayName: "C#"
  year: 2000
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [cpp, java, haskell]
  influences: [dart, kotlin, fsharp]
  category: general-purpose

- slug: d-lang
  displayName: D
  year: 2001
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [cpp, java, python]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: dart
  displayName: Dart
  year: 2011
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [java, javascript, csharp]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: dash
  displayName: Dash
  year: 1997
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [ash, bash]
  influences: []
  category: shell

- slug: deno
  displayName: Deno
  year: 2018
  paradigm: [imperative, functional]
  influencedBy: [javascript, typescript, rust, golang]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: elixir
  displayName: Elixir
  year: 2011
  paradigm: [functional, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [erlang, ruby, clojure]
  influences: [gleam]
  category: functional

- slug: elm
  displayName: Elm
  year: 2012
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [haskell, sml, ocaml]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: emojicode
  displayName: Emojicode
  year: 2016
  paradigm: [object-oriented]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: erlang
  displayName: Erlang
  year: 1986
  paradigm: [functional, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [prolog, lisp, smalltalk]
  influences: [elixir, clojure, rust, gleam]
  category: functional

- slug: factor
  displayName: Factor
  year: 2003
  paradigm: [stack-based, concatenative]
  influencedBy: [forth, lisp, joy]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: fantom
  displayName: Fantom
  year: 2005
  paradigm: [object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [java, csharp]
  influences: []
  category: jvm

- slug: fennel
  displayName: Fennel
  year: 2016
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [lua, lisp, clojure]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: forth
  displayName: Forth
  year: 1970
  paradigm: [stack-based, imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [factor, befunge]
  category: historical

- slug: fortran
  displayName: Fortran
  year: 1957
  paradigm: [imperative, structured]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [algol, cobol, the-c-programming-language, chapel]
  category: historical

- slug: fsharp
  displayName: "F#"
  year: 2005
  paradigm: [functional, imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [ocaml, csharp, haskell, sml]
  influences: []
  category: ml-family

- slug: gleam
  displayName: Gleam
  year: 2019
  paradigm: [functional, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [erlang, rust, elixir, elm]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: golang
  displayName: Go
  year: 2009
  paradigm: [imperative, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, pascal, python, erlang]
  influences: [vlang, crystal]
  category: systems

- slug: groovy
  displayName: Groovy
  year: 2003
  paradigm: [object-oriented, scripting]
  influencedBy: [java, python, ruby]
  influences: [kotlin]
  category: jvm

- slug: hare
  displayName: Hare
  year: 2022
  paradigm: [imperative, systems]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, zig, rust]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: haskell
  displayName: Haskell
  year: 1990
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [sml, lisp, scheme]
  influences: [rust, elm, purescript, idris2, fsharp, clojure, coffeescript]
  category: functional

- slug: idris2
  displayName: Idris 2
  year: 2020
  paradigm: [functional, dependent-typed]
  influencedBy: [haskell]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: io
  displayName: Io
  year: 2002
  paradigm: [prototype-based, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [smalltalk, lisp, lua]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: janet
  displayName: Janet
  year: 2018
  paradigm: [functional, imperative]
  influencedBy: [lua, clojure, lisp]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: java
  displayName: Java
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, cpp, smalltalk]
  influences: [csharp, kotlin, scala, groovy, clojure, ceylon, fantom, dart]
  category: general-purpose

- slug: javascript
  displayName: JavaScript
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, event-driven]
  influencedBy: [scheme, lisp, java]
  influences: [typescript, coffeescript, dart, deno]
  category: web

- slug: julia
  displayName: Julia
  year: 2012
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, metaprogramming]
  influencedBy: [python, lisp, r-project, matlab, ruby]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: kotlin
  displayName: Kotlin
  year: 2011
  paradigm: [object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [java, scala, csharp, groovy]
  influences: []
  category: jvm

- slug: lisp
  displayName: Lisp
  year: 1958
  paradigm: [functional, metaprogramming]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [scheme, clojure, racket, haskell, javascript, ruby, python, erlang, io, julia, fennel, janet, picolisp]
  category: historical

- slug: lolcode
  displayName: LOLCODE
  year: 2007
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: lua
  displayName: Lua
  year: 1993
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [scheme, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: [io, fennel, wren, janet]
  category: scripting

- slug: malbolge
  displayName: Malbolge
  year: 1998
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: [brainfuck]
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: mercury
  displayName: Mercury
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [logic, functional]
  influencedBy: [prolog, haskell]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: mksh
  displayName: MirBSD Korn Shell
  year: 2002
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [bash]
  influences: []
  category: shell

- slug: nasm-x86_64
  displayName: NASM x86_64
  year: 1996
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: nim
  displayName: Nim
  year: 2008
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [python, pascal, ada]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: nix
  displayName: Nix
  year: 2003
  paradigm: [functional, declarative]
  influencedBy: [haskell]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: oberon
  displayName: Oberon
  year: 1987
  paradigm: [imperative, structured, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [pascal]
  influences: [golang]
  category: historical

- slug: objective-c
  displayName: Objective-C
  year: 1984
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, smalltalk]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: ocaml
  displayName: OCaml
  year: 1996
  paradigm: [functional, imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [sml, haskell, lisp]
  influences: [rust, fsharp, elm, ats]
  category: ml-family

- slug: octave
  displayName: GNU Octave
  year: 1988
  paradigm: [imperative, array]
  influencedBy: [fortran]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: odin
  displayName: Odin
  year: 2016
  paradigm: [imperative, systems]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, golang, pascal]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: pascal
  displayName: Pascal
  year: 1970
  paradigm: [imperative, structured]
  influencedBy: [algol]
  influences: [ada, oberon, golang, nim, odin]
  category: historical

- slug: perl
  displayName: Perl
  year: 1987
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, scripting]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, awk, sed, lisp]
  influences: [ruby, python, php, raku]
  category: scripting

- slug: php
  displayName: PHP
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, scripting]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, perl]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: picolisp
  displayName: PicoLisp
  year: 1988
  paradigm: [functional, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [lisp]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: pony
  displayName: Pony
  year: 2014
  paradigm: [object-oriented, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [erlang, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: prolog
  displayName: Prolog
  year: 1972
  paradigm: [logic, declarative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [erlang, mercury]
  category: historical

- slug: purescript
  displayName: PureScript
  year: 2013
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [haskell, javascript]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: python
  displayName: Python
  year: 1991
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, lisp, perl, haskell]
  influences: [ruby, julia, golang, nim, coffeescript, groovy]
  category: general-purpose

- slug: r-project
  displayName: R
  year: 1993
  paradigm: [functional, imperative, array]
  influencedBy: [lisp, scheme]
  influences: [julia]
  category: general-purpose

- slug: racket
  displayName: Racket
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [functional, metaprogramming]
  influencedBy: [scheme, lisp]
  influences: []
  category: functional

- slug: raku
  displayName: Raku
  year: 2015
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [perl, haskell, javascript]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: rebol
  displayName: REBOL
  year: 1997
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, metaprogramming]
  influencedBy: [lisp, forth, logo]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: ruby
  displayName: Ruby
  year: 1995
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [perl, smalltalk, lisp, python]
  influences: [elixir, crystal, coffeescript, groovy, julia]
  category: scripting

- slug: rust
  displayName: Rust
  year: 2010
  paradigm: [imperative, functional, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [cpp, ocaml, haskell, erlang, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: [zig, gleam, hare]
  category: systems

- slug: scala
  displayName: Scala
  year: 2004
  paradigm: [functional, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [java, haskell, sml, ocaml]
  influences: [kotlin]
  category: jvm

- slug: scheme
  displayName: Scheme
  year: 1975
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [lisp, algol]
  influences: [javascript, ruby, lua, racket, haskell, r-project]
  category: functional

- slug: sed
  displayName: sed
  year: 1974
  paradigm: [scripting, stream-processing]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: [awk, perl]
  category: shell

- slug: smalltalk
  displayName: Smalltalk
  year: 1972
  paradigm: [object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [lisp]
  influences: [ruby, objective-c, java, python, erlang, io, cpp]
  category: historical

- slug: sml
  displayName: Standard ML
  year: 1983
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [lisp]
  influences: [haskell, ocaml, fsharp, elm, scala, ats]
  category: ml-family

- slug: snobol4
  displayName: SNOBOL4
  year: 1967
  paradigm: [imperative, pattern-matching]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: historical

- slug: sol
  displayName: Sol
  year: 2025
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [ruby, rust, mojo, swift, koka]
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: squirrel
  displayName: Squirrel
  year: 2003
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, scripting]
  influencedBy: [lua, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: tcl
  displayName: Tcl
  year: 1988
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [lisp]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: tcsh
  displayName: tcsh
  year: 1983
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: shell

- slug: the-c-programming-language
  displayName: C
  year: 1972
  paradigm: [imperative, structured]
  influencedBy: [algol, fortran]
  influences: [cpp, csharp, golang, rust, java, javascript, python, perl, php, ruby, lua, objective-c, awk, odin, hare, pony, crystal, squirrel, d-lang, nim, chapel]
  category: systems

- slug: tinygo
  displayName: TinyGo
  year: 2018
  paradigm: [imperative, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [golang]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: tswizzle
  displayName: TSwizzle
  year: 2024
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: typescript
  displayName: TypeScript
  year: 2012
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, functional]
  influencedBy: [javascript, java, csharp]
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: unlambda
  displayName: Unlambda
  year: 1999
  paradigm: [functional]
  influencedBy: [lisp]
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: vala
  displayName: Vala
  year: 2006
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented]
  influencedBy: [csharp, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: verilog
  displayName: Verilog
  year: 1984
  paradigm: [hardware-description]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, pascal]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: visual-basic
  displayName: Visual Basic
  year: 1991
  paradigm: [imperative, object-oriented, event-driven]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: general-purpose

- slug: vlang
  displayName: V
  year: 2019
  paradigm: [imperative, concurrent]
  influencedBy: [golang, rust, the-c-programming-language]
  influences: []
  category: systems

- slug: wat
  displayName: WebAssembly Text
  year: 2017
  paradigm: [imperative, stack-based]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: web

- slug: whitespace
  displayName: Whitespace
  year: 2003
  paradigm: [imperative, stack-based]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: wren
  displayName: Wren
  year: 2013
  paradigm: [object-oriented, scripting]
  influencedBy: [lua, smalltalk]
  influences: []
  category: scripting

- slug: zig
  displayName: Zig
  year: 2016
  paradigm: [imperative, systems]
  influencedBy: [the-c-programming-language, rust]
  influences: [hare]
  category: systems

- slug: zombie
  displayName: Zombie
  year: 2013
  paradigm: [imperative]
  influencedBy: []
  influences: []
  category: esoteric

- slug: zsh
  displayName: Zsh
  year: 1990
  paradigm: [imperative, scripting]
  influencedBy: [bash]
  influences: []
  category: shell