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Brief History
The C programming language was Developed/Founded by Dennis Ritchie along with the team working on Unix in 1972 at At&T Bell Labs. The BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was modified into a new programming language created by Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson called B. This language was found insufficient for the Unix operating system, so it was once again modified into what we now know as the C programming language. C is faster than B and became the code which Unix was ultimately built upon. This was the first time a high-level language was implemented into a full computer operating system and lead to a leap in operating system advancement.
The C Programming Language book acted as an unofficial guide to programming with C but soon after official specifications came out for the language. The X3J11 committee formed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1983 was to make an official specification for the language and in 1989 the standard documentation was published. Later on, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) took over the specifications. These specifications were updated time after time and as of today ISO/IEC 9899:2018 (C17) is the most recent C specification.
C gradually gained traction first within the At&T Bell Labs company itself then to outside programmers. The good ol' trusty C Programming Language book by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie was published in 1978 and gained widespread popularity.
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