1. | How was the ENIAC originally programmed? |
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2. | What are the two contributions of Grace Hopper? |
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3. | What is the importance of the EDSAC system? |
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4. | What was the first modern programming language? |
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5. | What is Dennis Ritchie s contribution to programming? |
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6. | What is Bjarne Stroustrup s contribution to programming? |
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7. | Why is C/C++ considered a high-performance programming language? |
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8. | What was the original purpose of the Java programming language? |
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9. | What is the Java Virtual Machine? |
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10. | What is the primary weakness of the C# programming language? |
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Answers
1. | The ENIAC was programmed by rewiring the computer. |
2. | Grace Hopper coined the term bug and helped developed the COBOL programming language. |
3. | The EDSAC system is commonly thought of as the first stored-program system. |
4. | FORTRAN was the first modern programming language. |
5. | Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language. |
6. | Bjarne Stroustrup created the C++ programming language. |
7. | C/C++ is considered a high-performance programming language because it lets you directly manipulate memory. |
8. | The Java programming language was originally intended to program smart devices such as cable television boxes. |
9. | The Java Virtual Machine is a program running on a computer that interprets the tokenized source code of a Java program and executes it. |
10. | The primary weakness of the C# programming language is that there is no guarantee C# will be supported for non-Windows platforms. Microsoft, who created C#, views C# as a means of creating programs on Windows platforms. |