Father of Computer Programming

Guido van Rossum is the creator of the Python programming language.

Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language while working at Bell Labs in the 1970s.

James Gosling is credited with creating the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as "Matz," created the Ruby programming language in the mid-1990s.

Bjarne Stroustrup is credited with creating the C++ programming language in the early 1980s.

Brendan Eich created the JavaScript programming language while working at Netscape in the mid-1990s.

JavaScript was invented by Brendan Eich in 1995.

It was developed for Netscape 2, and became the ECMA-262 standard in 1997.

After Netscape handed JavaScript over to ECMA, the Mozilla foundation continued to develop JavaScript for the Firefox browser. Mozilla's latest version was 1.8.5. (Identical to ES5).

Internet Explorer (IE4) was the first browser to support ECMA-262 Edition 1 (ES1).

John Backus is credited with creating the FORTRAN programming language in the 1950s.

Rasmus Lerdorf created the PHP programming language in the mid-1990s.

John McCarthy is credited with creating the Lisp programming language in the late 1950s.

The correct answer is John McCarthy

Key Points

• John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
• He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.
• He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection.

 LISP (list processing)

• Lisp is a family of programming languages Designed by John McCarthy, with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
• Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language still in common use.
• Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language while working at Apple in the early 2010s.

Edgar F. Codd is credited with creating the SQL programming language while working at IBM in the 1970s.

Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman created the R programming language in the mid-1990s.

Jean Ichbiah is credited with creating the Ada programming language in the 1970s and 1980s.

Graydon Hoare created the Rust programming language while working at Mozilla in the mid-2000s.

Grace Hopper is credited with developing the COBOL programming language in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Guido van Rossum created the Python programming language in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Anders Hejlsberg created the C# programming language while working at Microsoft in the late 1990s.

Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language while working at Apple in the early 2010s.

Brendan Eich created the JavaScript programming language while working at Netscape in the mid-1990s.

Larry Wall created the Perl programming language in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as "Matz," created the Ruby programming language in the mid-1990s.

Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer created the Go programming language at Google in the late 2000s.

Graydon Hoare created the Rust programming language while working at Mozilla in the mid-2000s.

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo created the Lua programming language at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, and Alan Edelman created the Julia programming language at MIT in the early 2010s.

Larry Wall created the Perl programming language in the mid-1980s while working as a programmer at Unisys.

Anders Hejlsberg created the C# programming language while working at Microsoft in the early 2000s.

Alan Kay created the Smalltalk programming language in the 1970s while working at Xerox PARC.

Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language while working at Apple in the early 2010s.

Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel created the Prolog programming language at the University of Aix-Marseille in the 1970s.