Do You Recognize These? Programming Languages: Quiz 2

March 3, 2025

This is the second in a series of challenges on your ability to recognize different programming languages.

What you'll learn:

How good are you at identifying the second set of programming languages?
Some programming languages you might want to look at.

This is the second Do You Recognize These for programming languages. Check out the first one if you missed it. This iteration takes a look at some popular as well as very old programming languages.

Software

Do You Recognize These? Programming Languages: Quiz 1

As usual, this is a mix of old and new, obscure and popular languages. Many are used on platforms you might be working with now, such as Linux, while others started in days gone by on mainframes.

Leave a comment if you have worked with one of the languages in this mix, or suggest ones that others should examine.

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