COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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WHO INVENTED FIRST HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE AND WHAT IT WAS LATER DEVELOPED INTO?
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CLIFFORS E. BERRYCOLOSSUS
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JOHN ATANASOFFHARVARD MARK 1
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NONE OF THESE
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GRACE HOPPERCOBOL
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vassar’s Grace Murray Hopper invented the COBOL programming language.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1959 COBOL (short for “common business-oriented language”) was introduced as the first standardized general business computer language. Although many people contributed to the “invention” of COBOL, Hopper promoted the language and its adoption by both military and private-sector users.
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