| *LISP | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Lazy Evaluation LISPs | ⊕ United States | Data parallel TM LISP |
| ACP | 1985 | ⊕ Netherlands | Algebra of Communicating Processes | ||
| Act3 | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Actra | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Canada | Multiprocessing Smalltalk | |
| AMPL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Numerical Scientific | ⊕ Array | ⊕ United States | Propsed extensions to APL |
| ANSI C | 1985 | ⊕ United States | Standardised form of C | ||
| ASPIK | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Germany | ||
| Asspegique | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| Bertrand | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | ||
| BiggerTalk | 1985 | ||||
| BLAZE | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ United States | Single assignment language for parallel processing | |
| Blue Label Pascal | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ Germany | Hejlsberg |
| BNR Prolog | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ Canada | |
| Boxer | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ 2-D Graphic Languages | ⊕ United States | |
| Brookhaven FASTBUS control language | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Campbell | 1985 | ||||
| CCT | 1985 | ||||
| CEDEX MIMD language | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| Centaur | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| Ceprol | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Cell-based | parallel language | |
| CEYX | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| Chez Scheme | 1985 | ⊕ United States | ANSI/IEEE-compliant Scheme compiler | ||
| CHIP | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ Germany | ||
| Chronolog | 1985 | ⊕ Canada | Temporal version of Prolog | ||
| CIRCAL | 1985 | ||||
| CL | 1985 | ⊕ International | |||
| CLEF | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| Clipper | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| CLX | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| CMAY | 1985 | ||||
| COBOL 85 | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | ⊕ International | ANS COBOL revision X3.23-1985 | |
| COMIS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Switzerland | Interactive Fortran system | |
| Common Objects | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| CONIC | 1985 | ||||
| C-Prolog | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ United Kingdom | |
| CS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Robotics language | |
| CSound | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Sound-Synthesis | ⊕ United States | Sound construction language |
| DAP-Algol | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Numerical Scientific | ⊕ True ALGOL60s | ||
| dBase III Plus | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| DDL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ United States | adventure defintion language | |
| DDL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | ⊕ United States | Data Definition Language | |
| DEQSOL | 1985 | ||||
| DESPATH | 1985 | ||||
| DITROFF/FFORTID | 1985 | ⊕ Israel | |||
| DL Logo | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| DPS | 1985 | ||||
| ec | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| ECP | 1985 | ||||
| Edinburgh ML | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| Edinburgh Prolog | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ United Kingdom | |
| EGS4 | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Monte Carlo | ⊕ United States | Monte Carlo system at SLAC |
| EML | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | ML Specification language | ||
| ESL | 1985 | ⊕ 2d shape | Simulation language | ||
| EuLisp | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Lazy Evaluation LISPs | ⊕ United Kingdom | European LISP standard |
| FCL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Firing Control Language | |
| F-code | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| FGL+LV | 1985 | ||||
| Fifth | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| FL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ United States | Function Level | |
| FOCAL PLUS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Numerical Scientific | ⊕ Arithmetic | ⊕ United States | HP FOCAL extended |
| foogol | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| FORMAL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | ⊕ United States | ||
| FP/M | 1985 | ⊕ Ireland | |||
| FPL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Flowcharts | ⊕ United States | Graphical beginners programming language |
| FRANK | 1985 | ⊕ Canada | SPL with bins | ||
| Fun | 1985 | Typed lambda-calculus | |||
| GCP | 1985 | ⊕ Italy | Guarded Communicating Processes | ||
| Gehani Ada | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| GEM | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Concurrent specification language | |
| GEP | 1985 | Mathematical programming language | |||
| GHC | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Japan | ||
| GML | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Canada | Waterloo General Markup Language | |
| GNOSIS | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| GOLDWORKS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Frame languages | ⊕ United States | |
| GPSS/85 | 1985 | ||||
| GPSS/PC | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| GRAPHIX | 1985 | ⊕ Australia | Graph Theory Sub-language | ||
| HDFL | 1985 | ||||
| HOL | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | Higher Order Logic | ||
| HZAPT | 1985 | ⊕ China | |||
| IF1 | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Ina Jo | 1985 | ||||
| Inform | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Robotics | ⊕ United States | Motoman robotics language |
| Interscript | 1985 | ||||
| J | 1985 | ||||
| Jacob 0 | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Juno | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| KEK-NODAL | 1985 | ⊕ Japan | |||
| Kernel Parlog | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| KNOWLEDGECRAFT | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Lambda | 1985 | ||||
| Larch | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Le_LISP | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Lazy Evaluation LISPs | ⊕ France | |
| LES | 1985 | ||||
| Linda | 1985 | ⊕ United States | coordination language | ||
| LINK | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| LLNL-FORTRAN | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Numerical Scientific | ⊕ United States | Vector FORTRAN | |
| LNF | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| LORE | 1985 | ⊕ France | Object-oriented language for knowledge representation | ||
| LTR3 | 1985 | ⊕ France | Langage Temps-Réel | ||
| LUSTRE | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| MacPIKS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Frame language | |
| MAGSY | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ RETE and production | ⊕ Germany | Multi-agent OPS5 |
| Martino | 1985 | ⊕ Italy | |||
| MECOL | 1985 | ||||
| MENDEL | 1985 | ⊕ Japan | |||
| Methods | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| MICROTEXT | 1985 | ||||
| MINT | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Miranda | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Lazy Evaluation FPs | ⊕ United Kingdom | |
| Miranim | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Animation | ||
| Modula-Prolog | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ Switzerland | |
| MSG.84 | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| M-STRUDL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | PC STRUDL | |
| MUDDL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Game languages | ⊕ United Kingdom | MUD language |
| Multiplan | 1985 | ||||
| Napier | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| NCR Pilot II | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ CAI languages | ⊕ United States | Computer aided instruction language |
| Neon | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| New Flavors | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| NEWP | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ United States | Burroughs system algol | |
| N-Prolog | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ United Kingdom | |
| O | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Object Pascal | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ United States | |
| OBSCURE | 1985 | ||||
| OIL | 1985 | ||||
| OLGA | 1985 | ⊕ France | Language for specification of attribute grammars | ||
| OPS/R2 | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ RETE and production | ⊕ United States | Production system |
| Orca | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Netherlands | parallel programming on distributed systems | |
| ParAlfl | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Paris | 1985 | CM Assembler | |||
| Pascal- | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ Switzerland | |
| Pascal-2 | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ United States | |
| PASM C | 1985 | ||||
| PASRO | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Germany | Pascal dialect for robotics | |
| PCL | 1985 | ⊕ United States | Printer Control Language | ||
| philvas | 1985 | ||||
| PICON | 1985 | ||||
| PILS | 1985 | ⊕ Switzerland | Portable Interactive Language System | ||
| PIMP | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Early Autocodes | ⊕ United Kingdom | Persistent IMP |
| PL/DS | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ United States | PL/I for distributed systems | |
| POEM | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | OO extension to Prolog | ||
| POOL-T | 1985 | ⊕ Netherlands | |||
| PRISM | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ String and List Processing | |||
| Prodigy | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Prolog-ELF | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ Horn clause | ⊕ Japan | |
| Protocol | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| PSAIL | 1985 | ⊕ United States | A Portable SAIL to C Compiler | ||
| QuickBasic | 1985 | ⊕ United States | Microsoft IDE-centred Basic interpreter | ||
| Rapira | 1985 | ⊕ Russian Federation | |||
| RedTen | 1985 | ⊕ Canada | |||
| Refine | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| RIPscrip | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| S*M | 1985 | Axiomatic, Non-procedural Hardware Description Language | |||
| SAGE | 1985 | Japanese Language generator system | |||
| SALT | 1985 | Sam And Lincoln Threaded language | |||
| SARTEX | 1985 | ||||
| SASL-YACC | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| SEGRAS | 1985 | ⊕ Germany | |||
| Sequence Pascal | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ International | |
| SESPATH | 1985 | ||||
| SHAG | 1985 | ||||
| SIMDIS | 1985 | ⊕ Germany | |||
| SLOG | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | Logic programming | ||
| SmallWorld | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| SOL | 1985 | ⊕ United States | Second-Order Lambda calculus | ||
| Spool | 1985 | ⊕ Japan | |||
| SQL/NF | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| SQUEAK | 1985 | ⊕ International | |||
| Squeak | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Experimental and other | ⊕ United States | ||
| SRL/1.5 | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| SSL | 1985 | ||||
| STAF | 1985 | ||||
| STIMULUS | 1985 | ⊕ Germany | |||
| STRICT | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| STROBE | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Symphony | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ 2D Spreadsheets | ⊕ United States | Spreadsheet language |
| TDL | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| Tempura | 1985 | ⊕ United Kingdom | |||
| Terrapin Logo | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| THLP | 1985 | ⊕ France | |||
| TM | 1985 | ||||
| TOTAL-IQ | 1985 | ⊕ United States | 4gl for Harris | ||
| Transforma | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ Definition languages | ⊕ United States | Trnsformation language |
| Trellis | 1985 | ⊕ Germany | |||
| TSL | 1985 | ⊕ International | Parallel Ada | ||
| TXL | 1985 | ⊕ Canada | |||
| VHDL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ United States | Hardware description language | |
| Vicon | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Specialised Languages | ⊕ 2-D Graphic Languages | ⊕ United States | |
| VisualWorks | 1985 | ⊕ United States | |||
| VS COBOL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Business Data Processing | ⊕ United States | COBOL for Visual Studio | |
| XCPL | 1985 | ↓ ↑ ⊕ Multi-purpose | ⊕ Pascals | ⊕ United States | eXperimental Concurrent Programming Language |
| yodl | 1985 | ⊕ United States |