I consider myself a bit of a languages geek, so I thought that I’d have no trouble with it. But it’s driving me mad!

The quiz consists of little snippets of code in different languages. The first letters of each language then spell out the name of another language.

I can get 5 of the 6, but one of them has me completely stumped. Even though I’m 99% sure what letter it’s name must start with.

Warning: Spoilers follow!

I’ll not reproduce all the different snippets here, but most of them are easily identified. But the second has me completely stumped. Here it is:

<Any T, Any U> T first((T,U) tuple) {
  (T t, U u) = tuple;
  return t;
}

Whatever language this is, it’s name (I’m pretty sure) starts with “N”, because the other snippets are in Simula, Occam, BCPL, Oberon and LOLCODE, giving S?OBOL. So I’m pretty sure that the answer to the quiz is SNOBOL (there is also, apparently, a dialect of COBOL called SCOBOL, but I doubt that this is the answer they’re looking for).

And I can’t think of any language which starts with an N that even resembles the code snippet.

Help!