Can you name the most popular programming languages?

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02 Aug 2011, 11:31 am

I am sure this is old but it was fun to do. I got 22/25, couldn't come up with #14, #18, and #19. The only one I feel silly for missing is #18.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/moogles/programlanguages

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02 Aug 2011, 11:41 am

Only got 12, so am a bit disappointed.
Some of them I had never heard of though.

#11 a bit generic

Still fun to do the test

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02 Aug 2011, 11:50 am

#11 and #13 have a * next to them meaning:

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*Note: those marked with an asterisk are more properly categories of languages

I got #11 because it accepted a specific example.

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02 Aug 2011, 1:10 pm

You got 11 out of 25 answers correct
D:!
Does that mean Im a bad programmer?
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02 Aug 2011, 1:12 pm

Haha, I didn't get past c, c++, D and I spelled perl "pearl", so there!, and "basic" was not even mentioned!! !!

My self confidence was crushed, and I had to spend half an hour on this linked website to somehow re-establish it.
After Maths and Geography did not do for me either, I regressed to Literature - damn humanist education, .

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02 Aug 2011, 1:39 pm

Um, you mean there's another programming language besides Fortran IV? I can't believe it! Why would anyone want anything else?

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02 Aug 2011, 2:46 pm

AspieWolf wrote:

Um, you mean there's another programming language besides Fortran IV? I can't believe it! Why would anyone want anything else?

Yes, at first I was confused when I typed in FORTRAN, then FORTRAN II, FORTRAN III, FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN 77, CO-ARRAY FORTRAN, etc and they all only counted as Fortran. :lol:

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02 Aug 2011, 4:03 pm

FearOfMusic wrote:

I am sure this is old but it was fun to do. I got 22/25, couldn't come up with #14, #18, and #19. The only one I feel silly for missing is #18.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/moogles/programlanguages

Numbers 14 and 19 are not, to my mind, languages. I suppose I mean they're not general purpose enough to include. That also goes for SQL, which, although it has "language" as part of its initialism, doesn't really qualify as something that is a Turing machine equivalent.
Most of the rest of my failures (14/25) are probably due to my sobriety level, plus foolishly trying for things like Coral, Algol, Focal, Snobol, PL/1, BASIC, VB, Forth and a bunch more genuine languages, which happen to be out of favour.

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02 Aug 2011, 4:40 pm

20/25

missed haskell because I couldn't spell it.

Does D refer to the experimental successor to C++, or to the DTrace language?

what about GO?

I can't believe I missed TCL! Everbody ignores him,

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02 Aug 2011, 5:35 pm

I got the top 3 and a few others.

I'm not a programmer though. I just know this stuff because I use computers.

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02 Aug 2011, 9:10 pm

lau wrote:

Numbers 14 and 19 are not, to my mind, languages.

Well that makes me feel a bit better, since I not only missed those, but have never heard of them.

I also missed 15 and 23, but I don't feel bad about those.

I was a bit irritated when prolog, smalltalk, and forth all gave me nothing. Oh well.

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03 Aug 2011, 3:58 am

17/25, pretty good since I don't really read about all the different types of languages, the only one I missed that I feel bad about is actionsscript

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08 Aug 2011, 6:31 pm

Only 11/25. D:

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08 Aug 2011, 10:53 pm

6/25 =/
Haven't done any programming since I was 12 though, and I missed out two that I actually knew: Pascal and SQL.

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08 Aug 2011, 11:04 pm

12/25

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08 Aug 2011, 11:16 pm

11. I thought Lua would be on there somewhere.

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