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.