According to 1960’s the to most important programming languages are
1. COBAL (common basic oriented language) and
2. FORTRAN (formula translations of scientific and engineering applications).
These are the languages used at that time to develop the applications.
what are the languages existed that time,they are used for only specific applications
The programmer decided to develop a language which can be used for many applications.
CPL -->BCPL-->B-->CLASSIC C--> C89 -->C99
CPL Developed at Cambridge University by Christopher Strachey in the middle of 1960's.
BCPL Developed by Martin Richord's at Cambridge university in the year 1967.
B was Developed by Ken Thompson at BTL in the year 1972.
Classic C was Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT & T at Bell Laboratory in the year 1972.
C language was created for developing UNIX operating system