History of C Language | Technical Guru Now

In this post we are going to learn about History of  C language.

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• ALGOL(1960s) :- 
• (i) The root of all modern languages.
•  (ii)introduce in 1960 . 
• (iii) It is a first programming language to use a block structure.
• BCPL(Basic Combined Programming language : 1967) :-
• (i)Introduce in 1967. 
• (ii) Develop by Martin Richards in AT & T bell laboratories. 
• (iii)Used for writing system software's.
• B (1970):
• (i)Ken Thompson studied BCPL language and created new language knows as ' B '. 
•  (ii) Introduce in 1970s.
•  (iii)It is used to create latest version of UNIX OS.
• C(1972):
•  (i) C language was created using features of ALGOL, BCPL, and B languages, by     Dennis Ritchie at AT & T Bell laboratories in 1972.
•  (ii) C language was initially designed as a system implementation language that is (for writing system software's) for the UNIX operating system. 
• (iii) It is popularly known as development language of the UNIX operating system. 
• (iv)It is a general purpose, block structure, procedural, case-sensitive , portable and middle-level programming language.

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