History of C programming language
History of C C is a general-purpose programming language initially developed by the Dennis Ritchie between 1969 to 1973 at AT & T (American Telegraph and telecommunication) Bell Labs. It is named C because its features are derived from the earlier language called B which is developed by the Ken Thomson . According to Ken Thomson B was the stripped-down version of BCPL (Basic combined programming Language). The origin of c is closely tied up with the Unix operating system development. In 1973 with the addition of struct type the c becomes powerful enough that the Unix operating system was designed in C. This was one of the first operating system kernels implemented in a language other than assembly. In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published the first edition of The C Programming Language. This book, known to C programmers as "K&R", served for many years as an informal specification of the language. The vers