History and Evolution of Programming Languages Test
Questions: 30
Questions
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1. Which of the following programming languages is considered the first modern programming language?
- a) Fortran
- b) Assembly Language
- c) COBOL
- d) Lisp
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2. Which programming language was developed primarily for business applications and remains in use today?
- a) Fortran
- b) COBOL
- c) Pascal
- d) JavaScript
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3. Which of the following programming languages was the first to be developed for artificial intelligence applications?
- a) Fortran
- b) Lisp
- c) C
- d) Python
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4. Which language was created to overcome the limitations of early assembly languages and was the foundation of many subsequent languages?
- a) Java
- b) Pascal
- c) Fortran
- d) C
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5. Which programming language introduced the concept of object-oriented programming (OOP)?
- a) Java
- b) C++
- c) Python
- d) Smalltalk
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6. Which language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of C to include object-oriented features?
- a) Java
- b) Pascal
- c) C++
- d) Ruby
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7. Which programming language was designed for teaching programming in universities and has a strong influence on modern programming languages?
- a) Java
- b) Pascal
- c) FORTRAN
- d) COBOL
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8. Which programming language was created for the development of software that could run on different types of hardware and systems without modification?
- a) Java
- b) C++
- c) Python
- d) Ruby
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9. Which of the following programming languages was primarily developed for mathematical and scientific computations?
- a) COBOL
- b) Pascal
- c) FORTRAN
- d) JavaScript
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10. Which language was designed to simplify the use of object-oriented concepts and has seen widespread use in web and mobile applications?
- a) Python
- b) C#
- c) Java
- d) Ruby
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11. Which early computer language was designed in the 1950s for scientific and mathematical programming?
- a) Java
- b) COBOL
- c) ALGOL
- d) FORTRAN
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12. Which language introduced the concept of garbage collection to automatically manage memory?
- a) Java
- b) C#
- c) Python
- d) Lisp
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13. Which programming language is known for its ability to produce efficient machine code and is used in systems programming?
- a) C
- b) Assembly Language
- c) Python
- d) Java
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14. Which language was the precursor to Java and influenced its development with the concept of bytecode?
- a) C
- b) C++
- c) Smalltalk
- d) Oak
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15. Which of the following programming languages was initially developed in the 1960s for handling business data processing applications?
- a) COBOL
- b) FORTRAN
- c) ALGOL
- d) Java
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16. Which programming language introduced the concept of the "sandbox" for secure execution of applications on the web?
- a) Java
- b) Python
- c) Ruby
- d) JavaScript
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17. Which programming language was originally developed to work with the UNIX operating system and is still widely used for system programming today?
- a) C
- b) Python
- c) Java
- d) Perl
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18. Which of the following programming languages was developed in the 1990s for academic use and is known for its design in teaching basic programming principles?
- a) C
- b) Java
- c) Scheme
- d) Scratch
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19. The development of the programming language Swift was primarily focused on which platform?
- a) Windows
- b) Android
- c) iOS
- d) Linux
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20. Which of the following languages is a derivative of the Lisp programming language and is widely used for AI research?
- a) Python
- b) Scheme
- c) Java
- d) C++
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21. The development of Python was influenced by which language that emphasized readability and simplicity?
- a) Ruby
- b) ABC
- c) C++
- d) JavaScript
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22. Which language was created by Microsoft and has since become popular for developing Windows applications?
- a) Java
- b) C#
- c) C
- d) Objective-C
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23. Which early programming language was primarily used for teaching and learning about algorithmic thinking?
- a) Lisp
- b) FORTRAN
- c) Pascal
- d) COBOL
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24. What is the primary purpose of assembly language in early computer systems?
- a) To perform high-level data processing
- b) To control hardware directly with symbolic representations
- c) To support database management
- d) To design websites
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25. Which programming language was developed in 1960 and is one of the earliest to focus on structured programming?
- a) FORTRAN
- b) ALGOL
- c) COBOL
- d) Pascal
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26. Which of the following programming languages was designed for the purpose of mathematical computations and AI in the late 1950s?
- a) Java
- b) Fortran
- c) Lisp
- d) Pascal
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27. Who is credited with creating the first high-level programming language, Fortran?
- a) John Backus
- b) Dennis Ritchie
- c) Alan Turing
- d) Bjarne Stroustrup
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28. The C programming language, developed by Dennis Ritchie, was originally created to develop which operating system?
- a) Windows
- b) Linux
- c) UNIX
- d) MacOS
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29. What is the primary purpose of the programming language Python, which was developed in the late 1980s?
- a) Web development
- b) Data analysis and machine learning
- c) Systems programming
- d) Artificial intelligence
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30. The first version of Java, a programming language, was developed by which company?
- a) Sun Microsystems
- b) Microsoft
- c) Oracle
- d) IBM
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