History of C

ALGOL, the root of all modern language was introduced around 1960s. It gave the concept of structured programming to Computer Science Society. ALGOL was popularized by computer scientist like Corrado Bohm, Guispee Jacopini and Edsger Dijkstra.
After 1960’s many language were on approach. In 1960, A language called BCPL(Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed by Martin Richards. It’s goal was to write system software. By using many features of BCPL in 1970 Ken Thompson developed a language called simply “B”. It was used at Bell Laboratories to create the early versions of UNIX operating system. BCPL and B bothe were “Typeless” system programming language.
Denis Ritchie created the most known programming language C by using the ideas of ALGOL,BCPL and B. As it was generated with UNIX operating system, it is strongly associated with UNIX which is coded entirely in C. For starting C was only used for academic purposes but by the release of many c compilers for commercial use and increasing popularity of UNIX it began to widespread among the computer professionals.
Throughout 1970’s, C was transformed which is now know as “Traditional C”.in 1978 this language became more popular after the publication of the book ‘The C Programming Language’ by Brian Kerningham and Denis Ritchie. This book was so successful that the language was came to be known amidst the computer community as “K&R C”.The fast growth of C led to the development of different versions of the language which were similar but often incompatible. This caused a serious problem for system developers. So, to keep the standard of the C language same in 1983, American National Standards Institute(ANSI) formed a technical committee to define a standard for C. This committee approved a version of C in the December of 1989 which is now known as ANSI C which was then approved by the International Standard organization(ISO) in 1990. This version of C is also known as C89.
During 1990’s based on C, C++ were introduced. JAVA a new programming language base on C and C++ was created by Sun Micro-systems of USA during the same period. Improvement of this language was a go all the time. It’s result was 1999 standard of C. Which is commonly known as C99. Although C99 is an improved version of C , still there are a number of compilers which doesn’t support it.So, my discussion is to make a version of C which will be supported by every compilers.