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History of C

Before going into the programming language let us see some of the history of our basic programming language C.

  • Developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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    Dennis M Ritchie
  • C was originally first implemented on DEC-PDP-11 computer in 1972.
  • The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
  • The UNIX OS is totally written in C.
  • Today’s most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MYSQL have been written in C.

In the next post we discuss about the usage of C and the local environment setup for our practice.