Arrange the following programming languages in an ascending form according to their year of development
(A) Cobol
(B) C
(C) Java
(D) FORTRAN
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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UGC NET Library & Information Science Paper 2 - 11 Jul 2022 Official Paper

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Note: This is the Modified question. The original Question was dropped from the official UGC NET paper.

The Correct answer is (D), (A), (B), (C);

Key Points

FORTRAN;
- Fortran (FORMula TRANslator) was created in 1954, and its commercial release was in 1957.
- Developers are John Backus and IBM.
- Software for NASA probes voyager-1 (space probe) and voyager-2 (space probe) was initially written in FORTRAN 5.
COBOL:
- It stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language
- In 1959, a group of programmers devised COBOL.
- Programs written in COBOL could run on more than one manufacturer’s computer.
C:
- It is a general-purpose, procedural programming language and the most popular programming language now.
- C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred in 1972.
- All the code that was previously written in assembly language gets replaced by the C language like operating system, kernel, and many other applications.
JAVA:
- Java was created at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where James Gosling led a team of researchers in an effort to create a new language that would allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other.
- Java was first released in 1995.

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