History of C

Question 1

Year when programming language C was made

Answer 1

1970

Question 2

Who and where was the C language created?

Answer 2

Dennis Ritchie

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Question 3

C was originally intended for designing what?

Answer 3

UNIX

Question 4

Year when C was being used outside the Bell Labs and other programmers had created their own versions

Answer 4

1972 - 1983

Question 5

Year when the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) formed a committee to standardize C.

Answer 5

1983

Question 6

The standard ANSI had created is known as?

Answer 6

ANSI Standard C (ANSI C)

Question 7

Year when ANSI Standard C was published.

Answer 7

1989

Question 8

Year when ISO accepted ANSI C. It was informally called as?

Answer 8

1990

C90

Question 9

C95 was published.

Answer 9

1995

Question 10

C99 was published.

Answer 10

1999

Question 11

C11 was published.

Answer 11

2011

Question 12

C18 was published.

Answer 12

2018

Question 13

Why is C chosen by programmers? Enumerate 6 reasons.

Answer 13

1. Powerful and flexible
2. Popular
3. Portable
4. Of a few words
5. Structured
6. Modular

Question 14

[C reason] C has keywords that serve as the base of C programming.

Answer 14

Of a few words

Question 15

[C reason] A program written on a computer can be run on other computers as well.

Answer 15

Portable

Question 15

[C reason] A program written on a computer can be run on other computers as well.

Answer 15

Portable

Question 16

[C reason] C is used to create a variety of programs (Photoshop, Word Processors etc.)

Answer 16

Powerful and flexible

Question 17

[C reason] C is widely used by programmers and in result, there are a lot of compilers and accessories available.

Answer 17

Popular

Question 18

[C reason] C can hide code and data necessary from the rest of the program

Answer 18

Structured

Question 19

[C reason] C is written in functions which are reusable for the rest of the program.

Answer 19

Modular