A brief history of the C language.
It 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.
The C programming language came out of Bell Labs in the early 1970s.
The development of C was to become the basis for Unix.
It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc.
C has changed over the years and is still a common language to use in lower level programs, like kernels.
It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL.
| 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 |