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Brief History of C

C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to be a simpler and more powerful successor to B. Ritchie created C to support the development of the UNIX operating system. C became widely popular due to its use in UNIX and as a system programming language. It soon became the most popular language for developing operating systems like UNIX. The American National Standards Institute standardized C in 1983, and the current C standard was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization in 1988.

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Brief History of C

C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to be a simpler and more powerful successor to B. Ritchie created C to support the development of the UNIX operating system. C became widely popular due to its use in UNIX and as a system programming language. It soon became the most popular language for developing operating systems like UNIX. The American National Standards Institute standardized C in 1983, and the current C standard was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization in 1988.

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Ariq Naufal Rabbani / 151610013

ENGR 1303
February, 18th 2018

Brief History of C Language


C is one of the programming language that commonly used in almost every single
application or program inside our computer. C language is one of the high level language
because it was more simple an easier to understand than the other type of language which is low
level language. Thanks to Dennis M. Ritchie who has create this program language that make us
easier to use computer.
He created the C language in the early 1970s when he was an employee from Bell Labs
(AT&T). In 1960s Ritchie, with other employees in Bell Labs (AT&T) was working on the
project called Project Multics. The goal of this project is to produce the system that can be use
easily. But this project doesn’t give any economical profit, so the project was close and Bell Labs
(AT&T) must do another research and the next research was continued by Ritchie and Ken
Thompson.
Ken Thompson wrote a new system for the DEC PDP-7, after he add some improvement
and expansion the system was complete and soon called UNIX, a whole system was created in
assembly code. Ken Thompson also develop a program language called B Language. B language
is a high level language so when using assembly when you want to make a certain function you
had to write many lines of code, using B language you can write less code than using assembly.
But there is some weakness in this programming language. B language didn’t know data-
types and B language can’t perform to use “Structure”. So in 1971 Dennis M. Ritchie change the
B language into C language with still using syntax from B language and adding some
improvement like data types feature. C language is more powerful to mix some function and
detailed feature for the program. Therefore many of UNIX system were rewritten using C
language.
They make a book “The C Programming Language, 1st edition” and become standard for
C language usage until 1983 American Standard National Institute (ANSI) develop a modern
definition of C language based on the book of Ritchie and Ken. In 1988 they final definition of C
language called ANSI C is developed. The standard ANSI made some little change in original C
language. Later on, International Standard Organization adopt the ANSI C language and made
some changes and become C language that we use until now, but some people still called it as
ANSI C

Reference
“The History of the C Language.” The History of the C Language | CodingUnit Programming Tutorials,
www.codingunit.com/the-history-of-the-c-language.

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