The first computer language developed was ____________.

COBOL

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BASIC

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FORTRAN

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PASCAL

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Java

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Solution

The correct option is C FORTRAN
The first computer language developed was FORTRAN in 1957. It has got its name from FORmula TRANslating system. This language was designed at IBM for scientific computing. The components were very simple, and provided the programmer with low-level access to the computers innards.

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