It was developed in late 1950s by McCarthy and it was original functional language as a realization of Churchs lambda calculus.

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It was developed in late 1950s by McCarthy and it was original functional language as a realization of Church’s lambda calculus.

A	LISP
B	FORTRAN
C	COBOL
D	APL

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1950s, Alick Glennie developed Autocode, possibly the first compiled programming language, at the University of Manchester. In 1954, a second iteration of the language, known as the “Mark 1 Autocode, ” was developed for the Mark 1 by R. A. Brooker.

Detailed explanation-2: -John McCarthy began developing Lisp in 1958 while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design in a paper in Communications of the ACM in April 1960, entitled “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I".

Detailed explanation-3: -The first high-level functional programming language, LISP, was developed in the late 1950s for the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers by John McCarthy while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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