Do you know programming history ?

Programming was not born yesterday, but followed upon years of evolutions, ideas initially, then machines and finally languages. The methods you apply today result from years of research, gropings and successes.
10 questions to check if you are a developer conscious of his roots, or if your have some gaps on the matter.

The first compiler was written by:

Blaise Pascal

Grace Hopper

Larry Wall

The 4th generation languages are :

Languages made for an integrated development environnement (Delphi, VisualBasic, PowerBuilder...)

Web oriented languages (HTML...)

AS400 oriented languages

"Fortran" means :

For Tran (Tran was the name of the programmer's girlfriend)

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FORmula TRANslator

The first functional language (in the mathematical meaning)

Iswear (If you wear equally all rings)

Iswim (If you see what I mean)

Ipod (If Paul overdoses)

The RMS after the GNU Fundation means :

Reason Maintainance System

Richard Matthew Stallman

Record Management Services

The very first universal programming language is :

Cobol

Lisp

Fortran

C ISO is an inheritance of:

ANSI C

ASCII C

Unicode C

The Ada language has been named in reference to:

The authors Darren Aronofsky, Kurtz Darthmouth and Thomas Anderson

Nobody : ADA are the 3 letters randomly issued by the first program written with this language

Ada Lovelace, the first woman programmer

C language was created by :

IBM

AT&T

Microsoft

The name "boolean logic" comes from:

It's inventor name, George Boole

The great passion of its inventor, bowling

An english translation of the greek word "Boolias"