From: Jaggu BN <jaggubn@...>
Date: 2009-08-09T14:55:07+09:00
Subject: Free C Language eBook

A Brief History of C

       C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It has
been closely associated with the UNIX operating system for which it
was developed  (since the system and most of the programs that run it
are written in C)

       Many of the important ideas of C stem from the language BCPL
(Basic Combined Programming Language), developed by Martin Richards.
The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language
B, which was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 at Bell Labs, for the
first UNIX system on a DEC PDP-7. BCPL and B are "type less" languages
whereas C provides a variety of data types.
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http://www.netinfocentre.com/CLanguage.html

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