Historical development of C language

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Historical development of C language


C is a programing and procedure oriented programming language develop at AT and T bell laboratory of USA in 1972. 

C was written or develop by DENNIS RITCHIE.

C language was derived from ALGOL(Algorithmic language),BCPL(Basic combined programming langauge),B  language .

C language uses many concept from this languages and added the concept of data type and others power  full features.

UNIX operating system was coded entirely in C language .

Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C language.

Programming language
Development year
Developed BY
ALGOL
   1960
INTERNATIONAL GROUP
BCPL
1966
MARTIN RICHARD
B
1970
KEN THOMPSON
Traditional C
1972
DENNIS RITCHIE
K and Rc
1978
BRAINKERNIGHAN AND   DENNIS RITCHIE
ANSIC
1989
ANSI COMMITTEE
ANSI/ISO
1990
ISO COMMITTEE

C language evolved as traditional c in 1972 .

This language become more popular so different version of this language were introduced as K and Rc .

To assure that the C language remains standard ,in 1989, AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD INSTITUTE (ANSI) appointed a technical committee to define the standard of C. The committee approved a version which is now known as ANSIC.

It is was then approved by INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ORGANIZATION (ISO) IN 1990.  
  
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