FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which high-level programming language is named after a mathematician from the 1800’s who made a mechanical device that could weave complex patterns in clothing based on punch card technology?
A
FORTRAN
B
PASCAL
C
BASIC
D
COBOL
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honour of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Machines and humans “think” very differently, so programming languages are necessary to bridge that gap. The first computer programming language was created in 1883, when a woman named Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage on his very early mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first high-level programming language designed for computers was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first high-level programming language was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. The first high-level language to have an associated compiler was created by Corrado Böhm in 1951, for his PhD thesis.

There is 1 question to complete.