Which of the following is a popular programming language for developing multimedia web pages, websites, and web-based applications ?
(1) COBOL (2) Java
(3) BASIC (4) Assembler
(5) None of these
Answers
Answer: Java
Explanation:
1. COBOL is not popular and is used for maintaining existing applications in many companies. It is a primary programming language in Mainframe.
COBOL is an abbreviated form where C means Common, B means Business, O means Oriented, and L means Language. In a conference, US committee of Defence, formed a group of people to develop a programming language which needs to be used in a business data processing which came to be known as COBOL.
4. Java is a popular programming language that is being used nowadays to develop multimedia rich web-pages, multimedia-rich websites, and multimedia-rich internet or web applications.
3. BASIC is a programming language that was used in earlier times. BASIC is an abbreviated form where B means Beginner's, A means All-purpose, S means Symbolic, I means Instruction, and C means Code.
4. Assembler is described as a computer program interpreter software with the functionality to interpret programs that are typed in assembly language into machine readable language. It has ""nothing"" to do with multimedia."