History of C Flashcards
Year when programming language C was made
1970
Who and where was the C language created?
Dennis Ritchie
Bell Telephone Laboratories
C was originally intended for designing what?
UNIX
Year when C was being used outside the Bell Labs and other programmers had created their own versions
1972 - 1983
Year when the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) formed a committee to standardize C.
1983
The standard ANSI had created is known as?
ANSI Standard C (ANSI C)
Year when ANSI Standard C was published.
1989
Year when ISO accepted ANSI C. It was informally called as?
1990
C90
C95 was published.
1995
C99 was published.
1999
C11 was published.
2011
C18 was published.
2018
Why is C chosen by programmers? Enumerate 6 reasons.
- Powerful and flexible
- Popular
- Portable
- Of a few words
- Structured
- Modular
[C reason] C has keywords that serve as the base of C programming.
Of a few words
[C reason] A program written on a computer can be run on other computers as well.
Portable