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Programming Languages Quiz

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Developed by Apple as a replacement for C, C++, and Objective-C, it was developed with the intention to be easier than the aforementioned languages and allow less room for error.

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This programming language was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Its primary uses include building and maintaining dynamic web pages, as well as server-side development.

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Developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love,It's the main programming language used to write software for macOS and iOS, Apple's operating systems.

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It was developed as a learning tool for computer programming which meant it was easy to learn. It was favored by Apple in the company's early days, because of its ease of use and power.

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was created by Larry Wall and is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. It was originally designed as a scripting language designed for text editing but nowadays it's widely used for many purposes such as CGI, database applications, system administration, network programming, and graphic programming.

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was first developed by IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlain. It is used for viewing and changing information that is stored in databases.

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was invented by John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT). Originally purposed for artificial intelligence

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was developed by Google to address issues that occur due to large software systems.

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Developed at Microsoft with the hope of combining the computing ability of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic

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was a general term used for a family of programming languages. First developed by Alick Glennie for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester, was the first-ever compiled language to be implemented meaning that it can be translated directly into machine code using a program called a compiler.

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was developed by a group of students at Dartmouth College. The language was written for students who did not have a strong understanding of mathematics or computers. The language was developed further by Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and became the first marketable product of the company.

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Is the programming language behind many credit card processors, ATMs, telephone and cell calls, hospital signals, and traffic signals systems (just to name a few). The development of the language was led by Dr. Grace Murray Hopper and was designed so that it could run on all brands and types of computers.

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Was created by a joint committee of American and European computer scientists. It served as the starting point for the development of some of the most important programming languages including Pascal, C, C++, and Java.

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was created by John Backus and is considered to be the oldest programming language in use today. The programming language was created for high-level scientific, mathematical, and statistical computations.

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Developed by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was called by its name because it was based on an earlier language called 'B'.

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Allowed for computer programmers to modify code on the fly. It introduced a variety of programming language aspects that are visible languages of today

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is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level programming language.

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s an extension of C with enhancements such as classes, virtual functions, and templates. It has been listed in the top 10 programming languages since 1986 and received Hall of Fame status in 2003.

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It is a purely functional programming language meaning it's primarily mathematical. It's used across multiple industries particularly those that deal with complicated calculations, records, and number-crunching. Like many other programming languages from this era, it is not overly common in use for well-known applications. With that said, the programming language has been used to write a number of games one of which is Nikki and the Robots.

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as developed by Guido Van Rossum. It is a general-purpose, high-level programming language created to support a variety of programming styles and be fun to use (a number of the tutorials, samples, and instructions)

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is an interpreted high-level programming language. A teaching language which was influenced by Perl, Ada, Lisp, and Smalltalk - among others. It's primary uses are for web applications development

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is a general-purpose, high-level language created by James Gosling for an interactive TV project. It has cross-platform functionality and is consistently among the top of the world's most popular programming languages.

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Developed by Martin Odersky, which combines mathematical functional programming and organized object-oriented programming. Its compatibility with Java makes it helpful with Android development. Linkedin, Twitter, Foursquare, and Netflix are just a few examples of the many companies that use Scala in their tech stacks.

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was created by Brendan Eich, this language is primarily used for dynamic web development, PDF documents, web browsers, and desktop widgets. Almost every major website uses this langauge like Gmail, Adobe Photoshop, and Mozilla Firefox include some well-known examples.

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Derived from Java, it was developed by James Strachan and Bob McWhirter. The language improves productivity because of its succinct and easy to learn. Some well-known companies that are using this language in their tech stacks are Starbucks, Transferwise, and Craftbase.

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26.

Differentiate COBOL from FORTRAN in 2 words:

Ex. C:______ F:_____

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27.

Differentiate Java from JavaScript in 2 words.

Ex. J:_______, JS:________

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