History of C

There is a similarity between human actions and the way a computer various functions.Nicholas wirth the inventor of computer language -Pascal used to say "A program is equal to algorithm + data.
We perform hundred of activities during a day. An activity could be anything from brushing teeth to making tea and from going to work having dinner. There are two ways to describe in detail any of these activities.
1. By describing Step-by-Step process is called as algorithm.
2.By representing the various steps in the form of diagram is called Flowchart. 

History of C

C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT&T(American Telephone & Telegraph),located in U.S.A.
Dennis Ritchie is known as the Father of the c language.
It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B,BCPL etc.
Intially c language was developed to be used in UNIX Operating System. It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL. The Unix operating system, the C compiler , and essentially all unix programs have been written in C.C has now became a widely used professional language for various reasons.

• Easy to learn
• Structured language.
• It produces efficient programs.
• It can handle Low-level activities.
•  It can be compiled on variety of computer platforms.

Let c the programming languages that were developed before c language.

Language	Year	Developedby
Algol	1960	InternationalGroup
BCPL	1967	Martin Richard
B	1970	Ken Thompson
Traditonal c	1972	Dennis Ritchie
k & RC	1978	Kernighan & Dennis ritchie
ANSI C	1989	ANSI Committee
ANSI / ISO C	1990	ISO Committee
C99	1999	Standardization Committee