History of C Language:
There were numerous programming languages that were developed before C language with an objective to overcome the tedious architecture of old languages. Dennis Ritchie in 1972 developed a more user friendly language at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in U.S.A. This language was considered as a High Level Language and was named as C.
C inherited many behavior from its ancestors. Along with the inherited features, some more unique features were developed in C that made it the most basic programming language and the mother of all programming languages. Even today when there are several new and modified programming languages already developed, C has its own importance and still maintains its value.
Flow of Development of C Language:
| YEAR | LANGUAGE |
| 1960 | Algol |
| 1967 | BCPL |
| 1970 | B |
| 1972 | Traditional C |
| 1978 | K & R C |
| 1989 | ANSI C |
| 1990 | ANSI/ISO C |
| 1999 | C99 |