C Programming Language, The
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The History of C
ALGOL (1960's, One of the first block-structured languages)
CPL
BCPL (Martin Richards)
B (Ken Thompson, Bell Labs)
C (Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs)
Dennis Ritchie developed C essentially to write operating systems. Ritchie and Thompson along with co-worker Brian Kernighan, developed and rewrote the UNIX operating system kernel using Ritchie's C compiler on a DEC PDP-11/20 in 1973. It flourished from there, and today, C is the basis for object oriented languages like C++ and Java.
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