C language history

History of C Programming Language

1. C is a programming language which born at “AT & T’s Bell Laboratory” of USA in 1972.
2. C was written by Dennis Ritchie, thats why he is also called as father of c programming language.
3. C language was created for a specific purpose i.e designing the UNIX operating system (which is currently base of many UNIX based OS).
4. From the beginning, C was intended to be useful to allow busy programmers to get things done because C is such a powerful, dominant and supple language
5. Its use quickly spread beyond Bell Labs in the late 70’s because of its long list of strong features

Refer : C Programming History Chart

Why Name “C” was given to Language ?

1. Many of C’s principles and ideas were derived from the earlier language B. (Ken Thompson was the developer of B Language.)
2. BCPL and CPL are the earlier ancestors of B Language
3. CPL is common Programming Language.In 1967, BCPL Language ( Basic CPL ) was created as a scaled down version of CPL
4. As many of the features were derived from “B” Language thats why it was named as “C”.
5. After 7-8 years C++ came into existence which was first example of object oriented programming .

Summary of C Programming Language History

Summary -
1	B Language Developed By	Ken Thompson
2	Operating System Developed in C	UNIX
3	Developed at	AT & T Bell Laboratory
4	Creator of Traditional C	Dennis Ritchie
5	Year	1972

C Programming Language Timeline :

You can view above C Programming History Timeline in pictorial form - [Here]