History of C

History of C:

               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. A great Scientist Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.

Dennis Ritchie

          In 1960, Programming language 'ALGOL'(Algorithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming language. 'ALGOL' was used on a large basis in European countries. 'ALGOL' introduced the concept of structured programming to the developer community.

               In 1966, a new computer programming language was introduced called as 'BCPL' which stands for Basic Combined Programming Language. It was designed and developed by Martin Richards, for written system software’s. In 1969-70 a new programming language called 'B' was introduced by Ken Thompson that contained many features of 'BCPL. It can improve and Upgrade the BPCL. This programming language was developed to be  used in  UNIX operating system at AT & T and Bell Laboratories in USA.  Both the 'BCPL' and 'B' were system programming languages.

           In 1972, Dennis Ritchie created a new programming language called 'C' at the AT & T Bell Laboratories. The base of the ‘C' programming language was ‘ALGOL’, ' BPCL’ and ‘B’ languages. 'C' contains all the features of these languages and many more additional concepts that make it unique from other languages.