By 1960 computer languages had come into existence all most each for a basic purpose. For example, COBOL was being used for commercial applications, FORTAN for engineering and scientific applications and so on.
At this stage people started thinking that instead of learning and using so many languages each for a different purpose why not we use only one language which can perform all possible applications.
Therefore, an international committee was set up to develop such a language. Thus committee comes out with a language called ALGOL 60 (algorithmic language).
However, ALGOL 60 never really become popular because it seemed to abstract to reduce this abstractness a new language called CPL (Combined programming language) was developed at Cambridge University.
CPL turned out to be so big having so many features that it was hard to learn and difficult to implement.
BCPL (basic combined programming language) developed by “Martin Richards” at Cambridge university aimed to solve this problem. By bringing at the same time a language called ‘B’ was written by Ken Thomson at AT&T bell labs.
As for this specification of CPL, Dennis Ritchie integrated the features of ‘B ‘and ‘BCPL’ added some of his own and developed ‘C’.
Year
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Developer
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Languages
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1960
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Cambridge University
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ALGOL 60
(Algorithmic Oriented Programming Language)
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1963
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Cambridge University
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CPL
(Combined Programming Language)
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1967
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Martin Richards
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BCPL
(Basic Combined Programming Language)
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1970
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Ken Thompson
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B
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1972
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Dennis Ritchie
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C
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1989
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ANSI Committee
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ANSI
(American National Standards Institute)
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1990
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ISO Committee
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ANSI/ISO C
(Organization of International Standards)
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