MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
FORTRAN and COBOL are examples of ____
A
hardware
B
operating systems
C
computer languages
D
algorithms
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of 3GLs are BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Perl and Ada.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although both FORTRAN and COBOL were universal languages (meaning that they could, in principle, be used to solve any problem that a computer could unravel), FORTRAN was better suited for mathematicians and engineers, whereas COBOL was explicitly a business programming language.

Detailed explanation-3: -COBOL is a procedural language and it does not support Procedural recursion while FORTRAN is a compiled imperative programming language designed for scientific and numerical computations. COBOL is Procedural, Imperative, and object-oriented.

Detailed explanation-4: -COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is imperative, procedural, and object-oriented. A compiler is a computer program that takes other computer programs written in a high-level (source) language and coverts them into another program, machine code, which the computer can understand.

Detailed explanation-5: -FORTRAN, in full Formula Translation, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. The creation of FORTRAN, which debuted in 1957, marked a significant stage in the development of computer programming languages.

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