Wednesday, September 18, 2019

History of C Language

History of C language is interesting to know. Here we are going to 
discuss a brief history of the c language.
C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie 
at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located
in the U.S.A.
Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.

It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc.
Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system. It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL.
Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C language.





Language
Year
Developed By
Algol
1960
International Group
BCPL
1967
Martin Richard
B
1970
Ken Thompson
Traditional C
1972
Dennis Ritchie
K & R C
1978
Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
ANSI C
1989
ANSI Committee
ANSI/ISO C
1990
ISO Committee
C99
1999
Standardization Committee

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