The history of C language is interesting to know. Here we will briefly discuss the history of the c language.

C language


Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language in 1972 at Bell Laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in the United States.

Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.

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

Originally, the C language was developed for use on the UNIX operating system. It inherits many features from previous languages like B and BCPL.

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 ThompsonTraditional
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
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