1978年，Brian Kernighan和Dennis Ritchie出版了第一版《The C Programming Language book》，被称为“K&R”，多年来一直作为该语言的非正式规范。这个版本的C通常被描述为K&R C。K&R C和后面描述的C语言有些不同。 美国国家标准协会（ANSI）组成了一个委员会在1989年完成，这个 ...

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The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...