COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the 1970s and 1980s, what programming language design criterion was most emphasized?
A
Efficiency of execution
B
Writability
C
Simplicity and abstraction
D
Logical or mathematical precision
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -ABSTRACT. The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system.

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

Detailed explanation-3: -When the decade of the ‘70s began, the languages that had been prominent in the ‘60s, including Fortran, Algol, and COBOL, were still the leading languages. In 1974 a small company named MITS created the Altair, the first personal computer.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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