Sunday, 1 November 2015

C Language History

For making these posts i follow "C The Complete Reference"(Fourth Edition) By Herbert Schildt

  1.  BCPL is invented by Martin Richards for writing compilers in 1966, which led to the development of B language.
  2.  B language is invented by Ken Thompson(along with Dennis Ritchie) at Bell labs Circa in 1969, which led to the development of C language.
  3.  C language was invented and first implemented by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs in 1973, which led to the development of C++ ,Java and many other Programming Languages.


BCPL:
         BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966.

B:
     B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.

C:
     C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

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