HISTORY OF C LANGUAGE

 History of C language is interesting to know.

• 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.

Evolution of c Language is represented by following timelines.

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