[Wolves] Quiz Answers

[Old Dan]

Ron Wellsted wrote:
> Here are the answers to the quiz I se the other week.
> What was the major contribution to computing made by:
> 
> 1/ Grace Hopper
> Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is attributed with having written the first ever 
> compiler, FLOW-MATIC (which latter evolved into COBOL) and discovered the 1st 
> computer bug (a moth inside the UNIVAC)
> 
> http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html
> http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hopper.html
> 
> 2/ Dennis Ritchie
> aka dmr, wrote the first C compiler, assisted in the porting of Unix to C
> 
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/
> 
> 3/ Gordon Eubanks
> Wrote BASIC-E for CP/M, a public domain BASIC compiler, which became CBASIC 
> and you had to pay for it (it had most of the BASIC-E bugs fixed).  CBASIC 
> made some attempt at being a structured procedural language in an attempt to 
> throw off the "spagetti code" approach that is typical of basic.  Now 
> president of Symantec.
> 
> http://www.surferess.com/CEO/html/gordon_eubanks.html
> http://www.vannattabros.com/history3.html
> 
> 4/ Gary Kildall
> Wrote CP/M, the first mass market OS for micro-computers.
> 
> http://www.cadigital.com/kildall.htm
> 
> 5/ Phillipe Kahn
> Founder of Borland, vendors of Turbo Pascal, the first low cost compiler for 
> the PC which also had one of the first ever IDEs.
> 
> 6/ Alan Turing
> Often described as the father of computing (alongside Baise Pascal and Charles 
> Babbage) he theorised most of the requirements for a computer (in general 
> terms) in the 1930s-1940s.  Worked on code breaking at Bletchley Park during 
> WWII.  Formulated the "Turing Test" for AI.
> 
> http://www.turing.org.uk
> 
> 7/ Ken Thompson
> Wrote Unix (in PDP7 assembler)
> 
> http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/thompsonbio.html
> 
> 8/ Tommy Flowers MBE
> The telephone engineer who worked with Alan Turing and built Colossus, the 
> first true electronic computer.  As with most of the people who worked at 
> Bletchley Park was not given any major recogintion of the importance his 
> role.
> 
> http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue63/news-flowers.html
> 
> 9/ Nicklaus Wirth
> Designed the Pascal, Modula, Modula-2 and Oberon languages.  Developed the 
> Lillth, one of the first computers to use a mouse together with windows, 
> scroll bars, title bars, etc.
> 
> http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/
> 
> 10/ Gordon Moore
> Founder of Intel and originator of Moores Law (is he intent on making sure it 
> applies?)
> 
> 
> Bonus Question:
>  Who were the authors of awk?
> Aho, Wienberger & Kernighan (as with most of the unix world the name is a pun,  
> this could be the subject for a future quiz)
> 
> Well, those are the answers I am using.
> 
> By this measure Dan is the winner by a narrow margin. Collect your pint on 
> Wednesday.
Whoooo-hoo-hoo!!  :)

-- 
Dan