Programming Languages, courtesy of Sir Kevin Wilson PhD.

Question 1

a popular, compiled, high-level language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1985.

Answer 1

C++

Question 2

is a popular high-level language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. It is a relatively pure object-oriented language

Answer 2

Java

Question 3

is a high-level language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid 1960s.

Answer 3

BASIC

Question 4

successor to the B programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972.

Answer 4

C

Question 5

an interpreted language designed principally to process text. It was written by Larry Wall and first released in 1988. It is intended to be practical and concise

Answer 5

Perl

Question 6

created in the late 1950s and was the first procedural language intended for solving mathematical and scientific problems.

Answer 6

ALGOL

Question 7

a high-level, compiled language built upon ALGOL. It is named after the 17th-century mathematician Blaise Pascal and was developed by Niklaus Wirth during 1967-71.

Answer 7

Pascal

Question 8

is the ancestor of the family of functional languages that emphasize evaluating expressions rather than executing imperative commands. It was developed in 1950-1960 by John McCarthy

Answer 8

LISP

Question 9

is the oldest high-level language. Designed by John Backus for IBM during the late 1950s,

Answer 9

Fortran

Question 10

was developed in 1959 by CODASYL. Is the second-oldest high-level language.

Answer 10

COBOL