| BC | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Bell Calculator | |
| BDARE | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | ||
| BIL | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Microprogramming and HLAs | ⊕ United States | Balm Implementation Language |
| Bourne shell | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Command systems | ⊕ United States | Command shell for UNIX |
| DARE-III | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Differential Equations | ⊕ United States | Continuous simulation languages |
| Dataplot | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Visualisation | ⊕ United States | |
| DC | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Desk calculator | |
| DDL-P | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | PASCAL implementation of DDL | |
| DEMOS | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Process interaction | ⊕ United Kingdom | Extensions to Simula |
| EPSIMONE | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ Brazil | Concurrent simulation language |
| INCA | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Numerical Control | NC language | |
| ISIS | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Expression oriented | ⊕ United States | Simulation language |
| JaM | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Stack | ⊕ United States | |
| MOUSE4 | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | RATFOR with a hash table | |
| OPS2 | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ RETE and production | ⊕ United States | Official Production System version 2 |
| PPL | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ United Kingdom | portable systems language |
| RESQ | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Event scheduling | ⊕ United States | |
| SCOT | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Sound-Synthesis | ⊕ United States | Music programming language |
| Scribe | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Layout and display | ⊕ United States | Text-formatting language |
| SIGLA | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Italy | Olivetti robotics language | |
| SL/1 | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Vector | ⊕ United States | Subset of SIMPL-T |
| SOGO | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Sound-Synthesis | ⊕ United States | Music programming language |
| SORITEC | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Algebraic | ⊕ United States | statistical/econometric programming language |
| TeX | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Text formatting language | |
| TeX-78 | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Text formatting language | |
| USL | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Ad hoc query languages | ⊕ Germany | Near natural language querying system |
| VisiCalc | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ 2D Spreadsheets | ⊕ United States | Spreadsheet program |
| ZGRASS | ⊕ 1978 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Animation | ⊕ United States |