Computer Languages for IBPS & Banking Exams

Computer Languages for IBPS & Banking Exams

• The first computer language for electronic devices was short code.
• The first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN.
• FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation system.
• FORTRAN language was designed at IBM, for scientific computing.
• The language used for programs that benchmark and ranks the world's fastest super computers is FORTRAN.
• The name COBOL stands for "COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE".
• The language which was referred as "the mother of the COBOL language" was FLOW - MATIC language.
• LISP stands for LIST PROCESSING language.
• LISP language was designed for Artificial Intelligence research.
• The first language to have format grammar was ALGOL.
• ALGOL mean ALGORITHMIC Language.
• ALGOL is a high level language designed especially for programming Scientific Computations.
• Pascal language was named in honor of Blaise Pascal.
• Pascal language was developed by Niklans Wirth.
• A small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices is Pascal.
• A general purpose programming language which was developed by Dennis Ritchie was 'C' language.
• C++ language was known as Object Oriented Programming or OOP.
• C++ is most after used in simulations, such as games.
• C++ is sometimes called a hybrid language.
• One of the preferred programming languages to develop professional applications is C++.
• Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling.
• Java language was developed to facilitate communication with the interactive T.V.
• Visual Basic (VB) was derived from BASIC.
• BASIC is a very limited scope language and was designed for non - computer science people.
• The heart of VB is the form or blank window on which some components are drag and drop. Those items are known as Widgets.
• Perl has often been described as the 'Duct tape of the Internet'.
• Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987.
• PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.
• BASIC means Beginner's All-purpose symbolic instruction code.
• Ada is a structured, statically typed, wide spectrum, object oriented high level computer programming language.
• Ada is an international standard.
• CORAL stands for Computer On - line Real - time Applications Language.
• Coral 66 is a general purpose programming language based on ALGOL 60.
• Coral is specifically intended for real time and embedded applications.
• PHP is a general purpose server side Scripting language Originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
• PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page.
• At present, PHP is said to stand for Hypertext Pre - Processor.
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
• HTML is for displaying web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.