History of C Programming Language
C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs, and used to re-implement the Unix operating system. It has since become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time.
It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL.
Let’s see the programming languages that were developed before C language.
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 .