Many programming languages are present in computer field. But among all programming languages ‘c’ is a general purpose programming language. C is a structured programming language. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT & T bell laboratories in murrax hill, new jersey, USA in 1972. Before c language many high level languages were in use but the major problem with these languages was that each language for specific purpose, none of these was all purpose. For example, FORTRAN was used specifically for engineering and scientific purpose and COBOL for commercial and business purpose. As different languages were in need of a general purpose language, which could perform different or all applications.
Therefore, an international commitee was set up to develop such a language. Thir commitee came out with a language called ALGOL 60.
ALGOL 60 never really became popular becoz it is too abstract and too general. To reduce this abstractness and generality, a new language called CPL (combined programming language) was developed at Cambridge university, in 1963. CPL was have so many features as well as some drawbacks i.e., it was hard to learn and difficult to impliment.
Cambridge university developed another programming language to solve the problems of CPL language. This language is BCPL(Basic combined programming language). It was developed by a man named martin richards at cambridge university in 1967.
But unfortunately it turned out to be very specific and too less powerful. Around the same time a language was developed to eliminate the problem of BCPL. this language is called B, it was written by ken thomson at AT & T bell laboratories in murray hill, new jersey, USA in 1970.
In 1972, dennis ritchie, a scientist, working at AT and T, bell laboratories of USA, inherited the features of B and BCPL, and added some of his own features and developed one new programming language called ‘c’ programming language. That’s why c is more powerful programming language than other structured programming language than other structured programming languages.
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