| ACCESS | 1972 | ↓⊕Ad hoc query languages | ↓⊕Norway | Norsk Data query Language |
| ACL | 1972 | | ↓⊕Canada | Audit Command Language |
| AIDA | 1972 | ↓⊕Other DPLs | ↓⊕United Kingdom | ICL 4GL |
| AL | 1972 | | | |
| ALA | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Vector enabled Algol for CDC Star instruction set |
| Alfred | 1972 | | | |
| Algol 68 with areas | 1972 | ↓⊕True ALGOL68s | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Addition of areas to Algol 68 |
| ALGOL 68RS | 1972 | ↓⊕True ALGOL68s | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Extended RS Algol |
| ALGOL-E | 1972 | ↓⊕True ALGOL60s | | |
| Anderson 1972 | 1972 | ↓⊕Multiline | ↓⊕United States | Pen-input high level language |
| APL/11 | 1972 | | ↓⊕Canada | |
| APL-Algol | 1972 | ↓⊕Map/Dictionary | ↓⊕United States | Associative Algol |
| APLG | 1972 | ↓⊕2d shape | ↓⊕United States | APL with graphics extensions |
| APLGOL | 1972 | ↓⊕Array | ↓⊕United States | APL with ALGOL-like control structures |
| APL-PL/I | 1972 | ↓⊕Map/Dictionary | ↓⊕United States | Associative PL/I |
| APL-SV | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | APL with IO |
| ASPL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| associons | 1972 | ↓⊕Theoretical incl category based | ↓⊕Netherlands | Tuple based programming extensions |
| AUTOGRAF | 1972 | ↓⊕2d shape | ↓⊕United States | Barchart creation language |
| AUTOGRP | 1972 | ↓⊕Statistical | ↓⊕United States | Interactive statistical analysis |
| BACCUS | 1972 | | ↓⊕Japan | |
| Baroque | 1972 | | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Logic programming language |
| Benjamin editor | 1972 | ↓⊕Editing and processing | ↓⊕United States | |
| BLS | 1972 | | | BASIC Language System |
| BML | 1972 | ↓⊕Other PL/Is | ↓⊕United States | |
| BRANCHEX | 1972 | | | |
| Burroughs 1700 System Interpreter | 1972 | | | |
| C | 1972 | ↓⊕CPL, BCPL and B | ↓⊕United States | Unix systems programming language |
| CAPS | 1972 | | | |
| CATALYST/NBS | 1972 | ↓⊕CAI languages | ↓⊕United States | Authoring/Programming environment at UoP |
| CDL | 1972 | ↓⊕HDLs | | Computer Design Language |
| CFD | 1972 | ↓⊕Hydraulic/hydrological | ↓⊕United States | Computational Fluid Dynamics. |
| Circuit Compilation Language | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| CISBOL | 1972 | ↓⊕Patterns | ↓⊕United States | SNOBOL compiler |
| COBIT | 1972 | | | |
| Concurrent Pascal | 1972 | ↓⊕Pascals | ↓⊕United States | Dialect of Pascal which supports monitors |
| CPM | 1972 | | ↓⊕United Kingdom | POL for CPM |
| CSMP III | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| CTL | 1972 | | | |
| DATABUS | 1972 | ↓⊕Other DPLs | ↓⊕United States | DATApoint BUSiness Language. |
| DDL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Data Definition Language |
| DDL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | CODASYL Data Definition Language |
| DETAB/GT | 1972 | ↓⊕Decision tables | ↓⊕Switzerland | Decision table language |
| DFPL | 1972 | ↓⊕Single-assignment | ↓⊕United States | Pure graphical dataflow language |
| DISPLAY | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| DML | 1972 | ↓⊕Hierarchical DB | ↓⊕United States | Data manipulation language for IMS |
| DMS2 | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| DOVPA | 1972 | | ↓⊕Netherlands | |
| EASY | 1972 | | | Educational paper language |
| EASY | 1972 | ↓⊕Intermediate languages and VMs | ↓⊕United States | Intermediate language |
| ELF | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| ELHILL | 1972 | ↓⊕Information Retrieval | ↓⊕United States | Text retrieval language |
| EOL-3 | 1972 | ↓⊕Grammar and Syntax-oriented | ↓⊕Poland | Expression Oriented Language |
| EXPLOR | 1972 | ↓⊕Animation | ↓⊕United States | Animation language |
| FATAL | 1972 | | | |
| FGRAAL | 1972 | ↓⊕Graph | ↓⊕United States | Fortran Graph extensions |
| FMS | 1972 | | ↓⊕Japan | |
| FOCAL/F | 1972 | ↓⊕Generation of JOSS I | ↓⊕United States | FOCAL for the PDP OS/8 |
| FOLDS | 1972 | | | |
| FORMAL-2 | 1972 | | ↓⊕Japan | |
| FOSPLAN | 1972 | | | |
| FPL | 1972 | ↓⊕Response languages | ↓⊕United States | Medical application language |
| GAN | 1972 | | | |
| GENIE | 1972 | ↓⊕Other DPLs | ↓⊕United Kingdom | ICL 4GL |
| Gentleman's Portable Coroutine System | 1972 | ↓⊕Non Standard FIV | ↓⊕United States | |
| GNOSIS | 1972 | ↓⊕CAI languages | ↓⊕Sweden | |
| GPSSS | 1972 | ↓⊕Event scheduling | ↓⊕Canada | Simula 67 with enhanced simulation capabilities |
| GRAAL | 1972 | ↓⊕Graph | ↓⊕United States | Graphic extension to Fortran |
| GRAPHOS | 1972 | ↓⊕Cell-based | ↓⊕United States | Visual macro system |
| GRASS | 1972 | ↓⊕2d shape | ↓⊕United States | |
| GTL | 1972 | ↓⊕Other Algol 60s | ↓⊕United States | Georgia Tech Algol |
| HAL/S | 1972 | ↓⊕Multiline | ↓⊕United States | NASA realtime control language |
| HARVEY | 1972 | ↓⊕Other Wirth Algols | ↓⊕United States | ICR Bliss dialect |
| Hoare super-structured Algol | 1972 | ↓⊕True ALGOL60s | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Algol with sets, subsets, orders etc |
| HTAB | 1972 | | ↓⊕United Kingdom | |
| IA/1 | 1972 | | ↓⊕Sweden | |
| IMP72 | 1972 | ↓⊕Other Algol 60s | ↓⊕United States | Extensible Algol |
| IMPRESS | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| INTCODE | 1972 | ↓⊕Initial orders | ↓⊕United Kingdom | |
| INTERCAL | 1972 | ↓⊕Other algorithmic | ↓⊕United States | |
| Jensen and Fraser | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| KEYBOL | 1972 | | | |
| LABTRAN | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| LAPREC | 1972 | | | LAngage de Programmation pour Ecran Cathodique |
| LAX | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| LAX | 1972 | | ↓⊕Sweden | Thorelli low level conversational system |
| lc | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| LCF | 1972 | ↓⊕Symbolic | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Logic for Computable Functions |
| ld | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| LEFT | 1972 | ↓⊕Editing and processing | | Language for Editing and Formatting Text |
| lg | 1972 | | ↓⊕France | |
| LIDIA | 1972 | | | Lernen Im DIAlog |
| LISP70 | 1972 | ↓⊕Lazy Evaluation LISPs | ↓⊕United States | |
| L-Machine | 1972 | | | |
| LSE | 1972 | ↓⊕Street basics | ↓⊕France | concurrent basic |
| MACKSIM | 1972 | | ↓⊕Canada | |
| MACROGENERATOR | 1972 | ↓⊕Macros | ↓⊕United Kingdom | |
| MADAM | 1972 | | | |
| MADCAP Terminal Language | 1972 | ↓⊕Multiline | ↓⊕United States | Terminal language for Maniac |
| MADCAP VI | 1972 | ↓⊕Multiline | ↓⊕United States | |
| MANTRAN | 1972 | | | |
| Martin-Löf types | 1972 | ↓⊕Symbolic | | |
| MARVEL | 1972 | | | |
| MATLAN | 1972 | ↓⊕Arithmetic | | MATrix LANguage |
| MAXPLANE | 1972 | | | |
| MESY | 1972 | | | |
| METAVISU | 1972 | | ↓⊕France | |
| MGRL | 1972 | | | MIND Grammar Rule Language |
| MIMO | 1972 | | | |
| MINI-FIRMS | 1972 | | | |
| MiVT AVTOKOD | 1972 | ↓⊕Moscow languages | ↓⊕Russian Federation | predecessor to the Elebris Autocode |
| MLISP2 | 1972 | ↓⊕Lazy Evaluation LISPs | ↓⊕United States | |
| MPGS | 1972 | ↓⊕Microprogramming and HLAs | ↓⊕Japan | high level microprogramming language |
| MPS | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| MRC | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| MUDDLE | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| MUSTRAN | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| MUSTRAN II | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| MVC | 1972 | ↓⊕Statistical | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Multiple Variate Counter |
| MYTH | 1972 | | | |
| Nassi-Shneiderman charts | 1972 | ↓⊕Flowcharts | ↓⊕United States | Graphical programming formalism |
| NORD PL | 1972 | ↓⊕PL-360s | ↓⊕Norway | NORD-10 PL360 |
| NTSYS | 1972 | ↓⊕Statistical | | |
| OPAL | 1972 | ↓⊕Other algorithmic | ↓⊕United States | |
| ORION | 1972 | | ↓⊕Switzerland | |
| OSCL | 1972 | | | Operating SystemControl Language |
| OSIRIS II | 1972 | ↓⊕Statistical | ↓⊕United States | |
| OSSL | 1972 | ↓⊕Digital | ↓⊕United States | |
| PAGE | 1972 | ↓⊕Character and symbology | ↓⊕United States | |
| PARSEC | 1972 | ↓⊕Other PL/Is | ↓⊕United States | |
| PDELAN | 1972 | ↓⊕Difference Equations | ↓⊕United States | Fortran partial differential equation |
| PDS/MaGen | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| PEARL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| PIT | 1972 | | | |
| PL/2 | 1972 | | | Programming Language 2 |
| PL/B | 1972 | ↓⊕Other DPLs | ↓⊕United States | Programming language for Business |
| PL/I Checkout Compiler | 1972 | ↓⊕IBM PL/Is | ↓⊕United Kingdom | |
| PL/M | 1972 | ↓⊕PL-360s | ↓⊕United States | Programming Language/Microcomputers |
| PLUTO | 1972 | ↓⊕Other PL/Is | ↓⊕Canada | U Toronto Teching PL/I |
| POLO | 1972 | | | |
| POOMAS | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| PROGRESS | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| PROTEE | 1972 | | | |
| PUB | 1972 | ↓⊕Layout and display | ↓⊕United States | Text-formatting language |
| RASTA | 1972 | | | Problemorientierte Programmiersprache zur Berechnung RAeumlicher STAbwerkeI |
| RED | 1972 | ↓⊕Strict evaluation FPs | ↓⊕United States | Backus formalism of language |
| RIL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Representation accessing language |
| Ritm | 1972 | | | |
| RTL/2 | 1972 | ↓⊕Partial A68 only | ↓⊕United Kingdom | real-time language based on ALGOL 68 |
| S0 | 1972 | ↓⊕PL-360s | ↓⊕Germany | PL360 for the Telefunken TR8G |
| SASL (2nd version) | 1972 | ↓⊕Polymorphic | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Lazy evaluation SASL |
| SASP I | 1972 | ↓⊕Grammar and Syntax-oriented | ↓⊕United States | Syntactically Analyzed String Processor |
| SCADS | 1972 | | | |
| SCAN | 1972 | ↓⊕Text analysis | | Conversational programming language for text analysis |
| SCOPE | 1972 | ↓⊕External systems testing | | Simple Checkout-Oriented Programming languagE |
| SHRDLU | 1972 | | | |
| SIGMA | 1972 | ↓⊕Algebraic | ↓⊕Switzerland | Interactive maths system based on CFS |
| SIMPL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Family of extensible structured languages |
| SIMPL/I | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | PL/I-based simulation |
| SIMPL-AI | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | AI dialect of SIMPL |
| SIMPL-G | 1972 | ↓⊕Graph | ↓⊕United States | SIMPL for graphs |
| SIMPL-PRL | 1972 | ↓⊕Patterns | ↓⊕United States | Pattern version of SIMPL |
| SIMPL-R | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | SIMPL-T for reals |
| SIMPL-RD | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Portable systems versino of SIMPL |
| SIMPL-S | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Systems language derived from SIMPL-D |
| SIMPL-X | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | GP extensible language |
| SKOL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| SLAMS | 1972 | | | Simplified Language of Abstract Mathematical Structures |
| SLICK | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| Smalltalk-72 | 1972 | ↓⊕Simple | ↓⊕United States | |
| SNAP | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| SNIBBOL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | |
| SNOBOL X | 1972 | ↓⊕Patterns | ↓⊕Canada | Generalised Snobol |
| SNOBOL4B | 1972 | ↓⊕Patterns | ↓⊕United States | Snobol with 3d character blocks |
| Speakeasy 2 | 1972 | ↓⊕Matrix | ↓⊕United States | Speakeasy with extra functions and graphics |
| SPEAKEASY 3 | 1972 | ↓⊕Algebraic | ↓⊕United States | Version 3 of Speakeasy |
| SPITBOL 360 | 1972 | ↓⊕Patterns | ↓⊕United States | SNOBOL4 compiler for IBM 360 |
| SPL | 1972 | ↓⊕Statistical | ↓⊕United States | Stats extensions to FORTRAN IV |
| SPL | 1972 | ↓⊕PL-360s | ↓⊕United States | HP System Programming Language |
| SPL | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Structured Programming Language |
| SPM | 1972 | | ↓⊕United Kingdom | |
| STEP | 1972 | | | |
| SURVIVAL | 1972 | | ↓⊕Japan | |
| SYNTEX | 1972 | | | |
| SYSTEMATICS | 1972 | ↓⊕Decision tables | ↓⊕United Kingdom | Decision table based systems language |
| Table Language | 1972 | ↓⊕Decision tables | ↓⊕Japan | Decision table language |
| TACTICS | 1972 | ↓⊕Decision tables | ↓⊕United States | Decision table system |
| THEMIS | 1972 | | ↓⊕United States | Distributed graphics processor system |
| TUNA | 1972 | | | |
| VEL | 1972 | ↓⊕Strict evaluation LISPs | ↓⊕United States | |
| VL1 | 1972 | ↓⊕2d shape | ↓⊕Poland | Picture representation by variable vlaued logic |
| VOCODER | 1972 | ↓⊕Sound-Synthesis | ↓⊕United States | Voice synthesis language |
| XBASIC | 1972 | ↓⊕Street basics | ↓⊕United States | |