History of C/C++
Development of C
UNIX developed c. 1969 – DEC PDP-7 Assembly
Language
BCPL – a user friendly OS providing powerful
development tools developed from BCPL.
Assembler tedious long and error prone.
A new language “B” a second attempt. C. 1970
A totally new language “C” a successor to “B”.
C. 1971
By 1973 UNIX OS almost totally written in “C”