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Introduction to C C Language is a powerful programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories in 1970. C Language is a general purpose high-level language. Most of its principles and ideas were taken from the earlier language B, BCPL and CPL. CPL (Common Programming Language) was developed jointly between the Mathematical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and the University of London Computer Unit in 1960s.CPL was too large for use in many applications. In 1967, BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was created as a scaled down version of CPL retaining its basic features by Martin Richards. Ken Thompson at Bell Labs, USA wrote his own variants of BCPL and called it B. In due course, the designers of UNIX modified it to produce a programming language called C. In 1970, a co-worker of Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie developed C Language by taking some of the generality found in BCPL and the B language into a more powerful language called C. Ninety percent