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Which programming language did Walter Bright create and first release in 2001?

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Which programming language did James Strachan create in 2003 for the Java platform?

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Groovy

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Which programming language did José Valim create in 2011 for the Erlang virtual machine?

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Elixir

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Which programming language did Cleve Moler create in the late 1970s as a matrix calculator for numerical computing?

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MATLAB

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Which programming language did Martin Richards create at the University of Cambridge in 1967?

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BCPL

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Which programming language did Kenneth E. Iverson develop at IBM and describe in his 1962 book A Programming Language?

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APL

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Which programming language, first released in 1987, was designed by Larry Wall as a general-purpose language for text processing?

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Perl

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Which programming language did John Backus and his team create at IBM in 1957 as the first widely used high-level language?

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Fortran

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Which programming language, created at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, pioneered object-oriented programming with a graphical user interface?

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Smalltalk

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Which programming language, designed by John McCarthy in 1958, introduced automatic memory management through garbage collection?

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Lisp

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Optimus Primal

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Which programming language did Walter Bright create and first release in 2001?

Which programming language did James Strachan create in 2003 for the Java platform?

Which programming language did José Valim create in 2011 for the Erlang virtual machine?

Which programming language did Cleve Moler create in the late 1970s as a matrix calculator for numerical computing?

Which programming language did Martin Richards create at the University of Cambridge in 1967?

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Which programming language did Walter Bright create and first release in 2001?

Which programming language did James Strachan create in 2003 for the Java platform?

Which programming language did José Valim create in 2011 for the Erlang virtual machine?

Which programming language did Cleve Moler create in the late 1970s as a matrix calculator for numerical computing?

Which programming language did Martin Richards create at the University of Cambridge in 1967?

Which programming language did Kenneth E. Iverson develop at IBM and describe in his 1962 book A Programming Language?

Which programming language, first released in 1987, was designed by Larry Wall as a general-purpose language for text processing?

Which programming language did John Backus and his team create at IBM in 1957 as the first widely used high-level language?

Which programming language, created at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, pioneered object-oriented programming with a graphical user interface?

Which programming language, designed by John McCarthy in 1958, introduced automatic memory management through garbage collection?

In Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, what is the name of the Maximal who transforms into a gorilla?

In The Wild Robot, what designation identifies the robot who becomes stranded on an island?

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