History of C
History of C Language
To overcome the problems of languages such as B and BCPL, Dennis Ritchie from The United States of America developed C language in 1972. This page is all about history of C language.
Invention of C Language
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie, he was born on 9th September, 1941. Ritchie invented two great inventions, C programming language and Unix operating system.he also co-authored a book “The C Programming Language”.
C is used for creating system application.Implementation of system software was designed by C language.It is a case sensitive programming language.
Dennis Ritchie further was referred as “The Father of Modern Programming Languages”.
Note:
C is a simple programming language in the history of computing programming language. It is structure oriented. Nowadays, many programming languages have arrived with many features like C++, python, Java and more but C is a base of any language.
Initially C was developed to be used in UNIX operating system, but nowadays it’s compatibility has grown a lot ranging from windows, Mac, Linux, Ubuntu and others.Many of the important working principle of C comes from BCPL, developed by Martin Richards, although B,BCLP are typeless languages C provides a number of different data types.
C Programming history:-
- In 1960, ALGOL was developed by the international group.
- In 1966, Martin Richards developed BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language before developing C.
- Later, Ken Thomson further developed BCPL by developing the first letter of BCPL i.e. he developed the B language.
- Ken Thomson developed BASIC type of UNIX Operating System, while the B language was in motion.
- After all this, by further developing the B language, Dennis Ritchie developed the C language in the Bell laboratory.
- After developing the C language, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson together developed the UNIX Operating System.
- In 1978, Kerni Ghan and Ritchie both did further improvement in C language and they brought the C programming language in front of the whole world.
- In 1989, ANSI C developed by the ANSI Committee.
- In 1999, The new version of C was developed, In which have new features like Data Types- char,float,int,double was used.
- Today’s we are using the new version of C is C11, which is developed by Standard Committee.
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