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| Origin, History, Facts, Features of C | IndianTechnoEra |
Here we will see the history of C language, its origin, its
facts, and how did it create.
History of C Language
- 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.
- Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder
of the c language.
- It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc.
- Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system. It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL.
Let's
see the programming languages that were developed before C language.
|
Language |
Year |
Developed By |
|
Algol |
1960 |
International
Group |
|
BCPL |
1967 |
Martin
Richard |
|
B |
1970 |
Ken
Thompson |
|
Traditional
C |
1972 |
Dennis
Ritchie |
|
K
& R C |
1978 |
Kernighan
& Dennis Ritchie |
|
ANSI
C |
1989 |
ANSI
Committee |
|
ANSI/ISO
C |
1990 |
ISO
Committee |
|
C99 |
1999 |
Standardization
Committee |
About C Language
- C is a basic of all the other programming languages.
- A computer is a machine and it understands only binary numbers (0 and 1).
- C is a compiler-based programming language.
- C programming used in several programs (word press, magneto, jquery, Joomla, php, .NET Microsoft, drupal, yii framework, Zend Framework, MySQL, Python, HTML, CSS, java, ios, android, etc.)
- Complier can convert human language code into machine language.
- Compiler In other words ‘a program which converts high-level programming language into low-level code’.
- ‘Device drivers’ and ‘Android core libraries’ are written in C language.
- ‘Oracle and MySQL database software is written in C language.
- UNIX operating system developed in C language.
- USB cable, video player, etc. installing and working all are written in C language.
Facts of C Language
- C is the basis for many other programming languages, like (C++, java, C# etc.)
- C compilation time is faster than other programming.
- The whole c language world is around only 32 keywords.
- C language is stable (doesn’t change much)
- C is a very powerful and widely used language.
History of C Language
- The developer of BCPL developed the C language in 1966.
- BCPL means “Basic Combined Programming Language”.
- Father of C Denny M. Ritchie.
- C language was developed at ‘AT & T Bell Labs’ in 1972.
- It was standardized in 1989 by ANSI (American National Standard Institute).
Before C..
- Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language in 1966.
- Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages.
- Then, ken Thompson developed the ‘B’ language in 1969.
- And which derived from BCPL language.