The Creation and Evolution of C: Its Impact on Modern Programming
The Birth of a Legend: C Programming Language In the realm of programming languages, few have had as profound an impact as C. Created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, C has become the cornerstone of modern programming, influencing a myriad of subsequent languages and shaping the way we develop software today. The Genesis of C Before C, high-level programming languages were often cumbersome and limited, forcing developers to resort to assembly language or machine code for many tasks. This was the landscape that Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan faced when they began working on C between 1969 and 1973. ...