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Which is the first computer language actually used on an electronic computing device ?

  1. Short Code

  2. PASCAL

  3. C++

  4. JAVA
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Short Code, developed in 1949-1950, was the first high-level programming language actually implemented on an electronic computer (the UNIVAC). It required manual translation to machine code, making it more of a pseudocode system, but represented the first attempt to abstract away from raw machine instructions. Pascal (1970), C++ (1983), and Java (1995) came much later.

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