Q 01/05

Which programmer created the C language at Bell Labs in 1972?

A) Dennis Ritchie

B) Ken Thompson

C) Brian Kernighan

D) Bjarne Stroustrup

Answer · why

A) Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie wrote C at Bell Labs in 1972; by 1973 the Unix kernel had been rewritten in it, and he co-authored the 1978 book The C Programming Lang...

Q 02/05

Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 1995 while working at which company?

A) Sun Microsystems

B) Netscape

C) Macromedia

D) Borland

Answer · why

B) Netscape

Netscape hired Eich in April 1995; he wrote the first JavaScript prototype in about ten days, and it shipped in Netscape Navigator 2.0.

Q 03/05

When JavaScript first shipped in a browser beta in September 1995, what was it called?

A) Mocha

B) WebScript

C) LiveScript

D) NetScript

Answer · why

C) LiveScript

LiveScript was the name in the Navigator 2.0 betas of September 1995; the company renamed it JavaScript that December to ride the hype around Sun's Ja...

Q 04/05

Who designed the Java language at Sun Microsystems?

A) Guy Steele

B) Scott McNealy

C) Patrick Naughton

D) James Gosling

Answer · why

D) James Gosling

James Gosling led the Java project at Sun from 1991, first aimed at set-top boxes; the language launched in May 1995 with the write once, run anywhere...

Q 05/05

Java was initially named after which tree standing outside its creator's office?

A) Oak

B) Elm

C) Maple

D) Cedar

Answer · why

A) Oak

Oak was the working name from 1991, but it was already trademarked, so the team settled on Java before the May 1995 release; Oracle acquired Sun in 20...