C Programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT & T, located in the U.S.A. It was developed to overcome the problems faced by programming languages such as B, BCPL, etc. The C programming language is, additions of data types(find later in this tutorial, what data type is) and other features to B and BCPL Programming languages. Initially, it was developed to use in the development of the Unix Project. This is a brief history of the C Programming Language.
A brief overview can be shown in the following table. A detailed explanation can be found on the internet.
| Language | Year | Developed By |
| Algol | 1960 | International Group |
| BCPL | 1967 | Martin Richart |
| B | 1970 | Ken Thompson |
| Traditional C | 1972 | Dennis Ritchie |
| K&R C | 1978 | |
| ANSI C | 1989 | ANSI Committee |
| ANSI/ISO C | 1990 | ISO Committee |
| C99 | 1999 | Standardization Committee |