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Thursday, April 21, 2011

C Programming History

HISTORY
n 1.‘C’ programming was introduced in the year 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraphs)Bellabs in USA.
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n 2. In 1960’s COBOL was being used for commercial apps and FORTRAN for scientific and engineering apps.
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n 3. At that stage they used to develop a language which is suitable for all apps.
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n 4. ALGOL60 was released but it was not popular because it seems too general.
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5. To reduce the generality a new language called
CPL(Combined Programming Language) developed at Cambridge University.
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n6. After some features are added to this language and a new language called BCPL(Basic CPL) was developed by Martin Richards.
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n7. The ‘B’ language was developed by Ken Thomson at AT&T Bellabs.

n8. Dennis Ritchie inherited features of B & BCPL and added some of his features developed ‘C’ language in 1972.


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