History of C Language

 

Dennis Ritchie is a founder of C language.

C programming language was developed in 1972 at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in the U.S.A.

It was developed to solve the problems of B, BCPL, languages.

At the starting C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system. 

The following are the programming languages that were developed before C language.

Language Year Developed By

Algol           1960 International Group

BCPL.        1967 Martin Richard

B                1970 Ken Thompson