Multiple choice technology programming languages Inventor of COBOL Grace Hopper Anders Hejlsberg Brendan Eich John Backus Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself A Correct answer Explanation Grace Hopper invented COBOL in 1959, building on her earlier work with compilers and the concept of machine-independent programming languages. Anders Hejlsberg created J++ and C#, Brendan Eich created JavaScript, and John Backus created FORTRAN.