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History of C

C was created at Bell Labs in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie to build the UNIX operating system. It quickly spread in popularity in the late 1970s due to its powerful features. C drew inspiration from earlier languages like B, BCPL, and CPL, and was named C since it took many principles from the B language. C++ later emerged as the first object oriented programming language based on C.

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History of C

C was created at Bell Labs in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie to build the UNIX operating system. It quickly spread in popularity in the late 1970s due to its powerful features. C drew inspiration from earlier languages like B, BCPL, and CPL, and was named C since it took many principles from the B language. C++ later emerged as the first object oriented programming language based on C.

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History of C Programming Language:
C is a programming language which born at AT & Ts Bell
Laboratory of USA in 1972.
C was written by Dennis Ritchie, thats why he is also called as
father of c programming language.
C language was created for a specific purpose i.e designing the
UNIX operating system (which is currently base of many UNIX
based OS).
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
Its use quickly spread beyond Bell Labs in the late 70s because of
its long list of strong features.

Why Name C was given to Language ?


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

History of C Programming : Chart

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