The Development of the C Language

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: HOPL
• Authors: Dennis Ritchie
• Keywords: HOPL 1993, Meager Programming Environment, Programming Languages, Typeless Language Bcpl, UNIX Operating System