History of Programming Languages Quiz

Who is considered to have developed the first computer programming language?

• Alec Glenny

• Maurice Wilkes

• Ada Lovelace

• Charles Babbage

Which programming language is widely used in programs that benchmark the world's fastest supercomputers?

• Fortran

• COBOL

• Lisp

• Basic

Which programming language introduced code blocks with beginning and end delimiters?

• Fortran

• Lisp

• Algol

• COBOL

Which programming language was designed to run on all brands of computers and is commonly found in ATMs and telephone systems?

• Basic

• Lisp

• COBOL

• Fortran

Which programming language is considered to be the second oldest high-level programming language after Fortran?

• Basic

• Algol

• Lisp

• Pascal

Which programming language was designed to be extremely easy to learn and won the technical impact award at the 19th annual dice Awards?

• MATLAB

• Visual Basic

• R

• Python

Which programming language is named after an American mathematician and is used mainly for intense number crunching?

• Scala

• R

• Python

• Haskell

Which programming language is known for making programmers feel lazy because it offers so much utility and almost uncontested code readability?

• Swift

• Java

• Ruby

• JavaScript

Which programming language was developed by the tech giant Google and is designed to help fix problems that are common in Google's mint software system?

• Groovy

• Go

• C#

• Scala

Which programming language was developed by the mega corporation Apple as a replacement for languages like C, C++, and Objective C?

• Ruby

• Java

• C#

• Swift