The story started with the Common Programming Language (CPL) which was turned into Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL) by Martin Richards. This was essentially a type-less language, which allowed the user the direct access into the computer's memory. This made the language useful to programmers.
Ken Thompson at Bell Labs, USA wrote his own variant of BCPL and called it B. In due course, the designers of UNIX modified it to produce a programming language called C.
Dennis Ritchie, also at Bell Labs, is credited for designing C in the early 1970s. Subsequently, UNIX was rewritten entirely in C. In 1983, an ANSI standard for C emerged making it acceptable internationally.
Ninety percent of the code of the UNIX operating system is written in C. The name C is doubly appropriate being the successor of B and BCPL.
C is a mid-level programming language, not as low level as assembly and not as high level as BASIC.
Ken Thompson at Bell Labs, USA wrote his own variant of BCPL and called it B. In due course, the designers of UNIX modified it to produce a programming language called C.
Dennis Ritchie, also at Bell Labs, is credited for designing C in the early 1970s. Subsequently, UNIX was rewritten entirely in C. In 1983, an ANSI standard for C emerged making it acceptable internationally.
Ninety percent of the code of the UNIX operating system is written in C. The name C is doubly appropriate being the successor of B and BCPL.
C is a mid-level programming language, not as low level as assembly and not as high level as BASIC.
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