Need for General Purpose Programming Language

Since 1950, FORTRAN is using for the development of scientific application and COBOL for Business applications.  A research for general purpose language has started.

During their research, they developed CPL (Common Programming Language).  But since it is not fulfilled their requirement completely, they added some more features and named it as BCPL (Basic Common Programming Language), after few additional modifications it was named as B which is the First Letter in BCPL, after few more modifications finally it was named as C (Second Letter in BCPL).

C was developed in AT&T’s Bell Laboratory in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and his team.  C was originally developed for use on UNIX platform.  Later, entire UNIX operating system was re-written by C Language.