Introduction to C

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This is my first blog. In this blog I would be writing about the Programming Language C and its features. 

HISTORY OF C

C was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs. Earlier days there were many programming languages in development. BCPL was one of those older languages. The development of C started with the development of BCPL and BCPL was developed by Martin Luther Richards. BCPL lead to the development of Language called B and this finally lead to the development of C. C provided an easy and faster way of compilation.
  

STANDARDS OF C

Soon C spread rapidly on different operating platforms, eventually it spread beyond unix for which the C was written. Researchers realized that a platform-independent standard for C is required to avoid creating of some incompatible types.

In the summers of 1983 a committe was established to create an ANSI(American National Standards Institute) that would define the language C. This process of standardization of C language took almost 6 years.
ANSI(American National Standards Institute) published a formal standard for the language in December 1989. This standard was soon accepted by almost everyone who used C. The original ANSI standard was officially called ANS X3.159-1989, but everyone called it the ANSI C standard.

A Joint Technical Comittee of ISO (International Standards Organization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) adopted the ANSI C standard in 1990 with some minor changes, as an International Standard it was formally known asISO/IEC 9899:1990.

C defined by 1989 standard is commonly referred as C89. The development of C++ standard consumed most programmers attention but the work on C moved quietly along with a new standard known as C99. 1999 standard for C is known as C99. We would be learning about C99 and C89 in further classes.