History of C Language

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C Programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennies Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT&T (America Telephone & Telegraph), located in USA. In 1972, the first release of C programming got officially public. C inherited many features from ALGOL, BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) and B. It is such a powerful language that UNIX operating system is almost completely written in C.

In 1978, it gained huge popularity from the Bell laboratories to the heart of every programmer. Brain Kernighan along with Dennis Ritchie published the first book on C "The C Programming Language". The book is popularly also known as "K&R C book”.

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C Standard:

The massive popularity of C programming headed development of its versions. However, every version was similar to the original but often incompatible. To assure the standard of C in every version, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) initiated work on C standards.

In 1989, ANSI sets base for all implementations of C compilers and published the first standard of C. The first C standard is popularly known as C89. The current C standard is commonly referred as C18 (previously known as C17) the most recent standard for the C programming language, published in June 2018. C18 will be superseded by C2x. 

Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C language.

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