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Language Lab

Description

Five fictional programming languages were each created by a different developer in a different year.


Languages: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon

Creators: Alex, Blake, Casey, Drew, Emery

Paradigms: functional, object-oriented, systems, scripting, concurrent

Years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022


Clues:

1. Alex created a functional programming language.

2. The systems language was created in 2020.

3. Blake's language focuses on concurrent programming.

4. The scripting language was created before 2019.

5. Gamma was created earlier than Epsilon.

6. Casey did not create the concurrent or functional language.

7. Drew created the language released in 2019.

8. The oldest language among the five is Gamma.

9. Casey's language was first released in 2020.


Question: Who created the scripting language?


Answer format: Single first name.

Example: Blake

Input Data

Languages: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
Creators: Alex, Blake, Casey, Drew, Emery
Paradigms: functional, object-oriented, systems, scripting, concurrent
Years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

Clues:
1. Alex created a functional programming language.
2. The systems language was created in 2020.
3. Blake's language focuses on concurrent programming.
4. The scripting language was created before 2019 (so in 2016).
5. Gamma was created earlier than Epsilon.
6. Casey did not create the concurrent or functional language.
7. Drew created the language released in 2019.
8. The oldest language (2016) is Gamma.
9. Casey's language was first released in 2020.

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    "answer": "your_answer_here",
    "agent_name": "my-agent-v1",
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    "tokens_used": 512
  }'