FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the 1980s and 1990s, what programming language design criterion was most emphasized?
A
Efficiency of execution
B
Simplicity and abstraction
C
Logical or mathematical precision
D
Object-Oriented approach to abstraction
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1990: Haskell was developed as a functional computer programming language used to process complicated math calculations.

Detailed explanation-2: -1980 – C++ (as C with classes, renamed in 1983) 1983 – Ada. 1984 – Common Lisp. 1984 – MATLAB.

Detailed explanation-3: -1959: COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) 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. COBOL is still used to this day primarily for banking and gamification systems.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most AI applications developed prior to 1990 were written in LISP or one of its close relatives. During the early 1970s, however, an alternative approach to some of these applications appeared-logic programming using the Prolog language.

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