Question

Arrange the following in increasing order: (A) PHP (B) Visual Basic (C) C++ (D) Fortran Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

• A. (A), (B), (C), (D)
• B. (B), (A), (C), (D)
• C. (D), (C), (B), (A)
• D. (C), (B), (D), (A)

Hint:

Remembering the era of each language helps. Fortran is from the early mainframe era. C++ is from the rise of object-oriented programming in the 80s. Visual Basic and PHP are from the Windows and early Web eras of the 90s, respectively.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Step 1: Identify the initial release year for each programming language. \[\begin{array}{rl} \bullet & \text{(D) Fortran (Formula Translation): 1957. It is one of the oldest high-level programming languages.} \\ \bullet & \text{(C) C++: First appeared in 1985 as an extension of the C language.} \\ \bullet & \text{(B) Visual Basic: Released by Microsoft in 1991.} \\ \bullet & \text{(A) PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor): Created in 1994/1995.} \\ \end{array}\]

Step 2: Arrange the languages by their creation year in increasing order. The chronological order is 1957, 1985, 1991, 1995.

Step 3: Match the years to the languages. The correct sequence is Fortran (D), C++ (C), Visual Basic (B), PHP (A). The correct order is (D), (C), (B), (A).