Let's say that 60-70 years ago, you saw a small piece of written code that looked like the the following:

Load  R4  R5

This would be an example of...

We have said that many great languages were designed primarily by one or two people. Which of the following languages was designed by a team instead?

Modern compiler tools often use a specification language called Backus-Naur to formally define a language grammar. The first computer language to use this formal style to define its grammar was...

Many languages have had a great impact on the syntax of new languages that were designed at a later time. Which one of the following languages did NOT have a significant impact on the syntax of other new languages?

Most early languages had relatively limited ability for any sort of complex output formatting (e.g., sophisticated text output). The one obvious exception was:

Some languages are very focused -

they try to support one or two main programming models and they do it

very well. Other languages try to function as "universal" languages by

adding an enormous number of features, and often are not very successful

in practice.

Which of the following is an example of the latter group - very large languages that aren't especially popular in practice.

Alonzo Church was a mathematician and a contemporary of Alan Turing. Both did fundamental work in the theory of computation. The theoretical work of Church heavily influenced the design of which computing language?

Many languages have been primarily designed in the United States. Which of the following languages were designed by people working outside of the U.S.?