COMPILER DESIGN

ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPILER DESIGN

CODE GENERATION FOR OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first high level programming language was designed in 1954 by IBM specifically for scientific programming and it was known as ____
A
C++
B
ADA
C
Fortran
D
Cobol
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1954, FORTRAN was invented at IBM by a team led by John Backus; it was the first widely used high-level general purpose language to have a functional implementation, in contrast to only a design on paper.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fortran is a general-purpose computer programming language that is especially suited to scientific computing problems. The high-level programming language maintains popularity due to its speed. Fortran programs run at high speeds, which are only comparable to a handful of languages such as C++.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fortran (/ˈfɔːrtræn/; formerly FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Backus & Team Develop FORTRAN, the First Widely Used First High-Level Programming Language. for the IBM 704. This software, proprietary to IBM, became the first widely-used high-level programming language. The FORTRAN language was completed in late 1954, and a FORTRAN compiler was programmedand tested in 1955–56.

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