In roughly chronological order Apple II Basic - the computer has programming built right in Hypercard - designing a GUI by point and click is nice C - there'

In roughly chronological order Apple II Basic - the computer has programming built right in Hypercard - designing a GUI by point and click is nice C - there's very little between programmer and computer C++ - you can have more between you and the computer when and only when you want it PHP - deploying web apps is about as easy as deploying static pages Javascript - prototypes less verbose than class definitions Common Lisp - I still haven't used a more powerful language Scheme - executable simplicity OCaml - type safety can actually work, and need not be verbose Ruby - did somebody do a usability study on a programming language? Forth - low-level expressive and possible is Python - other people's code is almost always readable Lua - small, simple, expressive and fast can coexist Arc - succinct Clojure - the sanest way I've seen to get a computer to do ten things at once Haskell - I've never seen an easier way to write a parser Java - lack of power means the IDE can do half the work for me Actionscript - at least it has closures