Like most programming languages, C was developed out of dissatisfaction with existing programming languages. Back in 1969 – when the idea of developing an operating system using a higher-level ...

Ritchie created the C programming language, which replaced the B programming language Thompson invented. The two later went on to create Unix, initially for minicomputers and written in assembly ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...