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 the U.S.A.
Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.In Earlies days, every language designed for some specific purpose. For example FORTRAN was used for scientific and mathematical applications, COBOL was used for business applications. So for the different programs, different languages was used. For this reason programmer had to learn all different language
for creating different programs which for programmer.
After so many year they develop a BCPL (Basic Combined Programming language by “MARTIN RICHARDS “at
Cambridge University.But they didn’t get success.Further they started to modify BCPL and develop B language
which was written by “KEN THOMPSON” at AT’s & T’s Bell Laboratories and again they failed in their research.
But they still trying and start to modify B language. During modification by mistakenly they made an
operating system “UNIX”. But it was not a research topic, so they start work on B language and after many
months or years they became success and develop C language which do all work combinedly It is written by “DENNIS RITCHIE” at AT’&T’s Bell Laboratories.
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 & RC |
1978 |
Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie |
| ANSI C |
1989 |
ANSI Committee |
| ANSI/ISO C |
1990 |
ISO Committee |
| C99 |
1999 |
Standardization Committee |