History of c progamming language/History of c

 History of C Language

The c programming language is a structure oriented programming language at Bell Laboratories of American Telephone & Telegraph  in 1972(U.S.A) By Dennis Ritchie. C language was invented for implementing UNIX operating system. and it was developed to overcome the problems of previous language as if B,BCPL ANSI C and Algol etc.

Now we will discus you about the developed language before c language-----

Language                 Developed By                              Year  

Algol                       International group                      1960

BCPL                     Martin Richard                              1967

B                             Ken Thompson                            1970

Traditional C           Dennis Ritchie                             1972

K & R C                  Kernighan& Dennis Ritchie         1978

ANSIC                    ANSI Committee                          1989

ANSI/ISO C          ISO Committee                              1990 

C99                      Standardization Committee             1999

There are three types of c language-

• Low level language
• Assembly language
• High level language