Post by rubl on Dec 11, 2020 10:23:22 GMT 7
This could have been in the history section or in computers & gadgets but since it started as science and with universities involved ...
"“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.
In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to the language, while other languages have merely adopted and adapted C’s syntax. A programmer conversant in Java, PHP, Ruby, Python or Perl will have little difficulty understanding simple C programs, and in that sense, C may be thought of almost as a lingua franca among programmers.
But C did not emerge fully formed out of thin air as some programming monolith. The story of C begins in England, with a colleague of Alan Turing and a program that played checkers."
arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/
"“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.
In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to the language, while other languages have merely adopted and adapted C’s syntax. A programmer conversant in Java, PHP, Ruby, Python or Perl will have little difficulty understanding simple C programs, and in that sense, C may be thought of almost as a lingua franca among programmers.
But C did not emerge fully formed out of thin air as some programming monolith. The story of C begins in England, with a colleague of Alan Turing and a program that played checkers."
arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/
