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It is good to learn history of C programming. C was developed and written by Dennis M. Ritchie in the year 1972 and hence he is known as the founder of C.

C programming language was developed to overcome the difficulties found in older programming languages such as BCPL, BASIC, B etc.

History of Programming Languages and C

Here is the lists of programming languages that were developed with or before C:
Programming Language
Development Year
Regional Assembly Language
1951
Autocade
1952
IPL (forerunner to LISP)
1954
FLOW-MATIC (led to COBOL)
1955
FORTRAN (First compiler)
1957
COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL)
1957
LISP
1958
ALGOL 58
1958
FACT (forerunner to COBOL)
1959
COBOL
1959
RPG
1959
APL
1962
Simula
1962
SNOBOL
1962
CPL (forerunner to C)
1963
Speakeasy (computational environment)
1964
BASIC
1964
PL/I
1964
JOSS
1966
BCPL (forerunner to C)
1967
C is imperative language and designed to compile in a relatively straightforward manner which provides low-level access to the memory. With the gradual increase in the popularity of the program, the language and its compiler has become available on a wide range of platforms from embedded micro-controllers to supercomputers.
With the introduction of K&R C language (which is a new edition of C published in 1978 by Brian Kernighan and Denis Ritchie), several features have been included in C language.
Some of these features are:
·         Standard I/O (Input/Output) Library
·         long int – data type
·         unsigned int – data type
·         Compound assignment operators
During the late 1980’s , C was started to use for wide variety of mainframe computers, micro and mini computers which began to get popular. Gradually C got its superset – i.e. C++ which has added features, but its developed from C with all its initial concepts.


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