Known Versions of C programming language

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Basically, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to make utilities running on Unix.

It is being updated, there are various known versions of C programming language.

These are various published Versions of C++.

Versions :

Version Standard Release Date Description
Birth Birth 1972 First version release year in 1972
K&R n/a 1978-02-22 The ‘C Programming Language’ Book is published in 1978 by founders. Used as a reference book to date.
C89 ANSI X3.159-1989 1989-12-14 ISO and ANSI standardized C language in 1989
C90 ISO/IEC 9899:1990 1990-12-20 First standard version is ISO/IEC 9899:1990
C99 ISO/IEC 9899:1999 1999-12-16 It is previously known as C9X.
C11 ISO/IEC 9899:2011 2011-12-15 The latest standard version is ISO/IEC 9899:2011
C18 ISO/IEC 9899:2018 June-2018 The latest version of C is C18
C23 ISO/IEC 9899:2023 2023-04-01 It was started in 2016 informally as C2x.



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