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| HISTORY OF C | |
| By: eba95 Date: July 30, 2010, 7:13 am | |
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| The first edition of the book, | |
| published in 1978, was the first | |
| widely available book on the C | |
| programming language. C was | |
| created by Dennis Ritchie. Brian | |
| Kernighan wrote the first C tutorial | |
| [1]. The authors came together to | |
| write the book in conjunction with | |
| the language's early development at | |
| AT&T Bell Labs. The version of C | |
| described in this book is sometimes | |
| referred to as K&R C (after the book's | |
| authors), often to distinguish this | |
| early version from the later version | |
| of C standardized as ANSI C.[2] | |
| In 1988 the second edition of the | |
| book was published, updated to | |
| cover the changes to the C | |
| programming language resulting | |
| from the new ANSI C standard, | |
| particularly with the inclusion of | |
| reference material on standard | |
| libraries. The second edition (and as | |
| of 2010, the most recent edition) of | |
| the book has since been translated | |
| into over 20 languages. | |
| ANSI C, first standardized in 1988, | |
| has since undergone several | |
| revisions, the most recent of which | |
| is ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (also known as | |
| " C99"), adopted as an ANSI standard | |
| in March 2000. However, no new | |
| edition of The C Programming | |
| Language has yet been issued to | |
| cover the more recent standards. | |
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