DOWNLOAD FREE History of C Language History of C language is interesting to know. Here we are going to discuss brief history of c language. 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 founder of c language . It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL etc. Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system . It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL. Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C language. Language Year Developed By Algol 1960 International Group BCPL 1967 Martin Richard B 1970 Ken Thompson Traditional C 1972 Dennis Ritchie K & R C 1978 Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie ANSI C 1989 ANSI Committee ANSI/ISO C 1990 ISO Committee C99 1999 Standardization Committee Features of C Language C i...