Multiple choice technology programming languages

Who is the inventor of COBOL

  1. John Backus

  2. Andres Hejlsberg

  3. Grace Hopper

  4. Brendan Eich
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Grace Hopper led the team that created COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) in 1959. The answer is C because Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, was instrumental in COBOL's development and advocated for machine-independent programming languages. John Backus created FORTRAN, Anders Hejlsberg created TypeScript and C#, Brendan Eich created JavaScript.

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