Brief History of C (cont)
- B was a typeless language
- C is a typed language
- In 1983, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established a committee to clean up and standardise the language
- ANSI C standard published in 1988
- this greatly improved source code portability
- C is the main language for writing operating systems and compilers; and is commonly used for a variety of applications
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