Programming languages were developed in order to

A. make it possible to program computers in English.

B. make programming faster and less error-prone.

C. speed translations between English and Russian during the Cold War.

D. improve the computation speed of computers, which were very expensive.

E. All of these.

B. make programming faster and less error-prone.

Explanation:

Programming languages were developed to make the programming faster and more error free.

Before the programming was done in the low level language. The main purpose to develop the programming language was to make it more user friendly so that it programming will be faster and error free.

So we conclude that the answer is option B.