Multiple choice technology programming languages

Who is the inventor of FORTRAN language ?

  1. John Backus

  2. John McCarthy

  3. Alan Cooper

  4. Edsger W. Dijkstra
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John Backus led the IBM team that created FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) in 1957, the first widely used high-level programming language. John McCarthy created LISP, Alan Cooper developed Visual Basic, and Dijkstra was a pioneering computer scientist known for structured programming principles.

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