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Can You Name the Programming Language?

April 3rd, 2010

A nice little three-minute quiz from Sporcle:

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What’s really interesting is which ones people recognize, and which they don’t:

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Want to know which languages they are? You’ll have to do the quiz yourself… :-)

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  1. Blake Winton
    April 4th, 2010 at 19:14 | #1
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    So, how many did you get? (I got 15 out of the 22, and am pretty happy missing the ones I missed. ;)

  2. Ken Struys
    April 5th, 2010 at 10:01 | #2
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    I got 19/22. I got caught up on the fact (display ‘Hello World’) was syntactically incorrect…

    I like the idea but once I got 19 I just started naming off random languages hoping to get some hits. I think the test can turn into what common languages can you name in 5 minutes versus the ones have you actually recognize. Still fun.

  3. Leo
    April 5th, 2010 at 11:54 | #3
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    The only real surprise for me is that more people recognize Fortran, than SQL and Prolog

  4. Andrew Potapov
    April 5th, 2010 at 13:03 | #4
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    I got 15 as well. However, I cheated, which I expect a lot of people do. I just started naming languages I know, even if I didn’t know their syntax.

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