The development of the C language

  • Authors:
  • Dennis M. Ritchie

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • HOPL-II The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.