16/19, missed Javascript, COBOL, and Groovy.
Can you name the Programming Language if You Know The Creators?
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#32Score:9.
Consolation points: Did BASIC and Ada which many seemed to miss.
Old memories refreshed, LOGO followed by BASIC. When I first read about C, I wondered how things ever worked without 'goto'. What the hell is this thing known as recursion. :)
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#3316/19: No surprise that I missed php and groovy, but I should have guessed fortran. I read somewhere that Backus was involved in the early stages of the functional programming language movement, and got sidetracked by that. He is also the B in BNF, of course.
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#3414/19. Got many from the names, but a few I could guess just from the year.
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#3515/19. Missed JS (wow), Groovy, BASIC, and Erlang. That was a bit harder than I thought it'd be, honestly.
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#36I thought James Strachan was the creator of Groovy.
I wonder how many of those other languages also really had a different creator to that listed in the quiz, but had its official history rewritten.
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#3719/19, but I struggled a bit with the Basic one.
Same here.
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#38Sigh, I see no language with type inference. Nor any concatenative one. Nor any non-strict one. So unfair.
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#39Grace Hopper invented FLOW-MATIC. She wasn't even on the COBOL design committee. If I were to choose a single inventor for Scheme, I would have chosen Sussman, not Steele.
Hmmm... I don't know much about COBOL, but Wikipedia tells me that she wrote the initial specification of the language, and given that it doesn't look to me as such a big stretch to name her at least as one of the main inventors of the language. Although it might be the case that after the committee there wasn't much left of the initial spec. But as I sayd, I hardly know anything about COBOL.