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History of C Language

History of C language is interesting to know. Here we are going to discuss a brief history of the 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.

Overview of C Language History

A brief overview of C language history is given below −

Origin of C Programming

'ALGOL' was the foundation or progenitor of programming languages. It was first introduced in 1960. 'ALGOL' was widely used in European countries. The ALGOL had introduced the concept of structured programming to the developer community. The year 1967 marked the introduction of a novel computer programming language known as 'BCPL', an acronym for Basic Combined Programming Language. BCPL was designed by Martin Richards in the mid-1960s.

Dennis Ritchie



Features of C Language

C is the widely used language. It provides many features that are given below.

    C features

  1. Simple
  2. Machine Independent or Portable
  3. Mid-level programming language
  4. structured programming language
  5. Rich Library
  6. Memory Management
  7. Fast Speed
  8. Pointers
  9. Recursion
  10. Extensible

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