History of C programming

• ALGOL (The root of all mordern programming language)  #1960
• BCPL (Basic combined programming language)  #1967
• B (It was used to create early version of UNIX in Bell Lab) #1970
• Traditional C  #1972
• K&R C  launched book #1978. C started some acceptence
• C89 / ANSI C (Americal National Standard Institute) launched in #1989 also known as C89
• C90 (ANSI & ISO commite approved) #1990

Meanwhile Sun Microsystem launched JAVA based on C & C++

In 1999, Standardization commite, decided to keep adding new feature of C++/Java in C and they launched

• C99  in #1999
• C11 in  #2011
• C18 in  #2018
• C2X in progress

Most famous compilers like gcc, LLVM clang, IAR, Microsoft Visual C++ VS 2019 support all this standars. (Atleast for x86 platform)