Which statement is true? a)Bill Gates and Guido van Rossum cofounded Microsoft.
b)Bjarne Stroustrup published the first reference guide for C++.
c)Paul Allen developed object-oriented programming.
d)John McCarthy led a team that developed FORTRAN.

Question is based upon our General knowledge in the field of IT and programming languages

Let's see the choices:

1) It is true that Bill Gates founded teh Microsoft, but Guido Von Rossum is the founder of python. So, this is incorrect option.

2) Bjarne Stroustrup is the creater of C++ programming language, and also published the Annotated C++ reference manual. So, this is correct✓.

3) Paul Allen was the one who co-founded the Microsoft cooperation along with Bill Gates. So, this is also incorrect.

4) John McCathy invented or founded LISP, which came after FORTAN, So he isn't the founder of FORTAN. So, this is also Incorrect.

So, correct option is Option B

#CarryOnLearning

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

; )

step-by-step explanation: ; )