History of C Language
Before we jump off to learning our first C program let us learn a little history about C.
Before C there were a few languages available like COBOL (for commercial Application) and FORTRAN(for Engineering and Scientific Applications) at first everything was going fine but then the general public felt the need for a language which has the best of both worlds or a language which isn’t application-specific.
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So an international committee was formed for this specific purpose and then came into existence ALGOL 60 which was supposed to solve the problem of using application-specific languages.
But
due to being too Abstract and too specific it didn’t make it but to reduce this
“too abstract” remark of ALGOL 60 another language named CPL (Combined Programming
Language) was developed in Cambridge which was to tone down the abstractness of
ALGOL 60 but due to being so big and full of features, it had become difficult
to understand and hard to implement.
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BCPL(Basic
Combined Programming Language) developed by Martin Richards at Cambridge aimed
to solve the problem with CPL but it came out to be less powerful and too
specific around the same time another language B was being developed by Ken
Thompson at AT&T Labs a simplification of CPL but it also turned out to be
very specific. Dennis Ritchie inherited from BCPL and B and added some of his
ideas to develop C (also developed at AT&T Labs ) it restored the lost
generality in BCPL and B.
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