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