HISTORY OF C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE :-


C is a programming language which was developed at "AT & T's laboratory" of  USA
in 1972.

It was written by Dennis Ritchie, thats why he is known as father of c programming  language.

It has been closely associated with UNIX operating system for which it was developed .

WHY C NAMED AS C  ?

BCPL is the earlier ancestors of c language(Basic Combined Programming Language)

Ken Thompson is known as the father of  B language .

It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc .

The programming languages that were developed before C language.


LanguageYearDeveloped By
Algol1960International Group
BCPL1967Martin Richard
B1970Ken Thompson
Traditional C1972Dennis Ritchie
K & R C1978Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
ANSI C1989ANSI Committee
ANSI/ISO C1990ISO Committee
C991999Standardization Committee