The C Programming Language
C was developed at Bell Laboratories by two men named Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. In 1972, Bell Laboratories needed to write a new operating system. Until that point, most operating systems were written in assembler language because the high-level programming languages were not efficient enough, given the lack of computer power at that time. The problem with the low-level programming of assembler language is that the code is difficult to maintain. As the operating systems were updated, programmers dreaded the nightmares that updating assembler code brought.
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The operating system that resulted from this endeavor was called Unix, which is still in use today and which inspired Linux, a popular PC operating ...
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