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

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

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as "Matz," created the Ruby 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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