C Programming Multiple Choice Question - About and History
This section focuses on the "History and About" of the C programming. These Multiple Choice Questions (mcq) should be practiced to improve the C programming skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
1. Who is father of C Language?
A. Bjarne Stroustrup
B. James A. Gosling
C. Dennis Ritchie
D. Dr. E.F. Codd
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Ans : C
Explanation: The C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie in the Bell Laboratories of the AT & T (American Telephone & Telegraph),located in U.S.A.Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of c language.
2. C Language was developed at ?
A. AT & T Bell Laboratory
B. MIT University
C. Harvard University
D. Stanford Lab
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Ans : A
Explanation: Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language at Bell laboratories during 1970s
3. Many features of C were derived from which language ?
A. PASCAL
B. B
C. BASIC
D. FORTRAN
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Ans : B
Explanation: Richie and Thompson wanted to rewrite the operating system in B, a language they had previously developed, but B were typeworthy, and therefore mixed bits / words were not well suited for address and PDP-11 type . B was a simplified version of Thompson's BCPL, which was more ALGOL than the language.
4. What is C language?
A. C language is a structure/procedure oriented
B. C language is a middle level programming language
C. C language was invented for implementing UNIX operating system
D. All of the above
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Ans : D
Explanation: C language is just a high level computer language. High level languages help Human beings to express Logic. Computers dont understand this language. So, you need a mediator. This mediator is usually a Compiler or Interpreter. In case of ‘C’, we have a compiler. The compiler translates the logic expressed in C into Machine Code which is the language of computers.
5. First version of C Programming language is ____ .
A. K&R
B. C89
C. ANSI
D. R&K
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Ans : A
Explanation: In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published the first edition of The C Programming Language known as "K&R" .
6. C was initially used for
A. General purpose
B. System development work
C. Data processing
D. None of these
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Ans : B
Explanation: C was initially used for system development work, particularly the programs that make-up the operating system.
7. C programming language is
A. Procedural language
B. Object Oriented language
C. Scripting languages
D. None of these
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Ans : A
Explanation: C programs follow a procedure of steps written in it, called functions. It follows a top-down approach i.e. much importance is given to flow of program rather than on data on which functions operate.
8. Which Committee standardize C Programming Language ?
A. IEEE
B. ISO
C. IEC
D. ANSI
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Ans : D
Explanation: American National Standards Institute.ANSI C (these days better known as C89) was the first standardized form of the C language.
9. Which year C language is developed?
A. 1970
B. 1971
C. 1972
D. 1973
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Ans : C
Explanation: C programming language was developed at Bell Laboratories in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie.
10. Which of these is not an example for IDE in C?
A. Turbo
B. Pycharm
C. Code::Blocks
D. Borland
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Ans : B
Explanation: Pycharm used for python
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