| ABC | ⊕ 1957 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | Information Retrieval | ⊕ United States | Data manipulation language from Remington St Paul |
| ABL | ⊕ 1960 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | Information Retrieval | ⊕ Italy | Language manipulation of files |
| ADMINS/11 | ⊕ 1970 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | Information Retrieval | ⊕ United States | ADMINS for the PDP/11 |
| STATUS | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | Information Retrieval | ⊕ United Kingdom | Query language |