%0 Journal Article %1 ritchie1993a %A Ritchie, Dennis M. %D 1993 %J ACM SIG\-PLAN Notices %K Type Programming standardization; BCPL; Typeless C structure; language; Unix languages; programming system design; operating environment; %N 3 %P 201--208 %T The development of the C language %U http://www.acm.org:80/pubs/citations/proceedings/plan/154766/p201-ritchie/ %V 28 %X The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.

@article{ritchie1993a, abstract = {The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.}, added-at = {2006-03-09T08:15:35.000+0100}, affiliation = {AT and T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA}, author = {Ritchie, Dennis M.}, bibdate = {Tue May 4 05:54:23 MDT 1999}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2722ff3f58d24c1dfaedc84ef44715055/snowball}, classification = {C6140D (High level languages)}, coden = {SINODQ}, confdate = {20-23 April 1993}, conflocation = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, confname = {HOPL-II. The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages, April 20--23, 1993, Cambridge, MA}, confsponsor = {ACM}, interhash = {2d04428aa1be3c56343fabdc27277095}, intrahash = {722ff3f58d24c1dfaedc84ef44715055}, issn = {0362-1340}, journal = {ACM SIG{\-}PLAN Notices}, keywords = {Type Programming standardization; BCPL; Typeless C structure; language; Unix languages; programming system design; operating environment;}, month = {March}, number = 3, pages = {201--208}, subject = {{\bf D.3.2} Software, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, Language Classifications, C. {\bf K.2} Computing Milieux, HISTORY OF COMPUTING, Software. {\bf D.3.2} Software, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, Language Classifications, BCPL.}, thesaurus = {C language; History}, timestamp = {2006-03-09T08:15:35.000+0100}, title = {The development of the {C} language}, url = {http://www.acm.org:80/pubs/citations/proceedings/plan/154766/p201-ritchie/}, volume = 28, year = 1993 }