Q 01/05

Which game engine, launched in 2005 at an Apple developer conference, uses C# as its primary scripting language?

A) Unreal

B) GameMaker

C) Unity

D) Source

Answer · why

C) Unity

Unity once offered two other scripting languages, Boo and UnityScript, but retired both in favour of C#. The engine first shipped as a Mac-only produc...

Q 02/05

Which question-and-answer site for programmers, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, is written in C#?

A) Stack Overflow

B) Hacker News

C) Experts Exchange

D) CodeProject

Answer · why

A) Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow runs on C# with Microsoft's SQL Server as its database. Its founders wanted a more open alternative to the question-and-answer sites th...

Q 03/05

The sharp sign in the name of C# can be read as four of which symbol, arranged two by two?

A) Minus signs

B) Plus signs

C) Equals signs

D) Asterisks

Answer · why

B) Plus signs

Plus signs fit the joke: C++ is C stepped up once, so four of them hint at a language one step beyond C++. The name also nods to music, where a sharp ...

Q 04/05

James Gosling dismissed the newly announced C# as an imitation of which language, which he had created at Sun?

A) Eiffel

B) Python

C) Perl

D) Java

Answer · why

D) Java

Java came from Sun Microsystems, whose co-founder Bill Joy made the same charge. C#'s lead architect answered that it was no clone and sat much closer...

Q 05/05

Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C#, later designed which Microsoft language that compiles to JavaScript?

A) CoffeeScript

B) PureScript

C) TypeScript

D) ClojureScript

Answer · why

C) TypeScript

TypeScript was released to the public in October 2012, after two years of internal development at Microsoft. Its code is translated into plain JavaScr...