History of C Language ❮ Edit Details
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 |
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Algol | 1960 |
International Group
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BCPL | 1967 |
Martin Richard
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B | 1970 |
Ken Thompson
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Traditional C | 1972 |
Dennis Ritchie
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K & R C | 1978 |
Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
|
ANSI C | 1989 |
ANSI Committee
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ANSI/ISO C | 1990 |
ISO Committee
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C99 | 1999 |
Standardization Committee
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