Question

Who developed the first computer spreadsheet package called VisiCalc?

• A. Niklaus Wirth
• B. Dan Bricklin
• C. Bob Frankston
• D. Both (b) and (c)
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is D Both (b) and (c)

Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston developed the first computer spreadsheet package called VisiCalc

In the spring of 1978, a Harvard Business School student, Dan Bricklin, came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator, the program (called VisiCalc), which will be called later the First Killer App of the Computer Era. Bricklin certainly was not he inventor of the electronic spreadsheet.

Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin (born 16 July 1951), often referred to as “The Father of the Spreadsheet”, is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.