Software Development: Building Reliable Systems
Software History and Trivia Questions
| 1: | Did Intel develop the first integrated circuit? |
| A: | No. Credit for developing the first integrated circuit is generally given to Jack Kilby, who developed a working integrated circuit in 1958 while at Texas Instruments. |
| 2: | Was BASIC developed at Microsoft? |
| A: | No. The BASIC language (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was developed by John Kennedy and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth in 1964. |
| 3: | How did the Ada language get its name ? |
| A: | Ada was named after Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, who in 1842 translated Luigi Menabrea's pamphlet on the Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, adding her own commentary . |
| 4: | How did the C language get its name? |
| A: | C was so named because the prototype language that was its predecessor was called "B." |
| 5: | When was C developed? |
| A: | C was developed in 1972 by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs. |
| 6: | When was C++ developed? |
| A: | C++ was developed in 1983 by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T. |
| 7: | Was C++ the first object-oriented language? |
| A: | No. Simula, developed in 1967 by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of the Norwegian Computing Centre, is generally considered as the first object-oriented language. |