C LANGUAGE
C Language – Inventory & Versions 🌟 C Language – Inventory & Versions This page covers the history, versions, syntax, data types, variables, constants, and operators in C with examples. 1. Inventory (History & Origin) Year Event 1969–1972 Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs as a system programming language for UNIX. 1978 K&R C (first edition of The C Programming Language book published). 1989 ANSI C (C89) standard approved by ANSI. 1990 ISO C (C90) standardized internationally. 1999 C99 update introduced inline functions, variable-length arrays, // comments, and more. 2011 C11 introduced multi-threading support, Unicode handling, bounds-checking functions. 2018 C18 (minor revision of C11) — bug fixes and clarifications. 2. Why Use C? Foundation of programming – base for languages like C++, Java, C#. System-level programming – OS, compilers,...