Correct Answer : C
Java was conceived by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank and Mike Sheridan at Sun Microsystems, Inc (which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) in 1991. The writing of language started in 1991 but was released out fully in 1995. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++. Java is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA). Java was initially called Oak which was later renamed as Java. James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language.