Can you name the Programming Language if You Know The Creators?

[cgrubb]

Grace Hopper invented FLOW-MATIC. She wasn't even on the COBOL design committee.

If I were to choose a single inventor for Scheme, I would have chosen Sussman, not Steele.

[nene]

Hmmm... I don't know much about COBOL, but Wikipedia tells me that she wrote the initial specification of the language, and given that it doesn't look to me as such a big stretch to name her at least as one of the main inventors of the language. Although it might be the case that after the committee there wasn't much left of the initial spec. But as I sayd, I hardly know anything about COBOL.

[dheerosaur]

>If I were to choose a single inventor for Scheme, I would have chosen Sussman, not Steele.

Yes, I was disappointed too. Sussman should be there. He is one my personal favorites.

[superrad]

Apart from a few the actual years of creation helped me more than the names of the creators.

[kunjaan]

Missed Groovy. No regrets.

[rayvega]

Groovy and Scala but no Clojure?

[baddox]

Yeah, and I kept guessing Clojure on all the ones from the 2000s that I didn't know.

[dheerosaur]

Yeah, I was looking for Rich Hickey after answering the obvious and popular ones.

[aidenn0]

I can't believe I missed basic and javascript! I'm banging my head against the wall thinking "I know the name Brendan Eich, but where?"

[jimbokun]

18/19 can't believe I missed BASIC! Should have been process of elimination of programming languages I've heard of at that point.

Most I got from the creators, managed to narrow down the others based on the year.

[khingebjerg]

I thought James Strachan was the creator of Groovy.

[vorg]

I wonder how many of those other languages also really had a different creator to that listed in the quiz, but had its official history rewritten.

[batasrki]

15/19, missed Groovy (also no regrets), BASIC, COBOL and Ada Lovelace (put Babbage)

[tyweir]

Same, missed basic, cobol, scheme and JS. :(

[l0nwlf]

Score:9.

Consolation points: Did BASIC and Ada which many seemed to miss.

Old memories refreshed, LOGO followed by BASIC. When I first read about C, I wondered how things ever worked without 'goto'. What the hell is this thing known as recursion. :)

[mahmud]

Did BASIC and Ada which many seemed to miss

There was no Ada in the list. You couldn't list Ada's authorship and still keep the entry-box above the fold.

[joshes]

17/19. Missed Erlang and Groovy.

The ones which came to me quickest upon seeing the name(s) were Python, Lisp, C, Java, C++ and Go (because of the year). The one which was the hardest to recall was Scala.

And the bonus was quick to memory, too.

[cstuder]

Scala was easy for people like me who took a compiler design class given by Odersky at EPFL. We actually wrote a compiler for a simplified version of Scala. I would have never thought to see that language again after university. (That was about 6 or 7 years ago.)

[bl4k]

anybody else put 'emacs' for Guy Steele?

[sb]

Missed Groovy...

I would like to see other very important people on this list, e.g., where is Niklaus Wirth? or Alain Colmeraurer? or Chuck Moore?

[andywood]

15/19, but only because I wrote the back-end for this app: http://flashcards.educationlabs.com/#/Play/?deckid=0 and the Language Creators deck was the very first test deck I made early in development. I'm very impressed with those who actually knew all of them!

[loup-vaillant]

Sigh, I see no language with type inference. Nor any concatenative one. Nor any non-strict one. So unfair.

[Locke1689]

Yeah I was searching for Haskell or ML.

[frou_dh]

C#'s `var` too weaksauce?

[phr]

16/19: No surprise that I missed php and groovy, but I should have guessed fortran. I read somewhere that Backus was involved in the early stages of the functional programming language movement, and got sidetracked by that. He is also the B in BNF, of course.

[futuremint]

Got em all except BASIC, Groovy, Scala, C# & Fortran. Not very interested in those languages anyway. I would have liked to see Haskell & Smalltalk on there. Apparently I do as much reading _about_ programming languages as I do _of_ them!

[ygd]

Tip: use *'s for italics, not _'s.

[s-phi-nl]

One they did not ask: Alan Kay

[jpr]

Or Niklaus Wirth:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/supreddit/prog_lang_wirth

[weej]

I feel ashamed that I didn't realize Guy Steel did Scheme nor that he is the current Chairman of Common Lisp. Go figure.

Anything Lisp related just immediately makes me think of McCarthy.

[duck]

A little more info on Ada (which I missed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

[jallmann]

Missed groovy, scala and basic. Actually surprised I missed the latter, but then again I never sat down and thought, "who invented basic?"

[StudyAnimal]

Got 17/19. I did not get Rasmus Lerdorf PHP. I also did not get the Ada Lovelace one, but I should have, I just couldn't recall it.