'C' seems a strange name for a programming language .but
It allows software developers to develop programs without worrying about the hardware platform where they will be implemented.
The root of all modern language is ALGOL, introduced int the early 1960s, ALGOL was the first computer language to use a block structure .Although never became popular in USA, it was widly used in Europe . ALGOL gave the concept of structured programming to the computer science community . Computer scientist like carrado bhom , guisepee jacopini and edsger dijkstra populized this concept during 1960 subsquently,several language were announced.
In 1960, Martin Richards develop a language called BCPL (Basic combine programming language ) primarily for writing system software.In 1970, Ken Thompson created a language using many feature s of BCPL and called it simply B. B by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Laboratries in 1972 .C uses many concepts from these languages and added the concept of data types and other powerful features .