History of Programming The first widespread language was FORTAN but is not clear & lacks ease in understanding programs. C Language C language was invented by Dennis Ritchie and resulted from the development process that started with BCPL (developed by Martin Richards). BCPL influenced B language (invented by Ken Thompson), leading to C's development in the 1970s. The de facto standard for C was the one supplied with the UNIX OS. C was standardized in December 1989, when the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard for C was adopted. C language is designed by & for the programmers. C quickly attracted many followers. In the 1960s C championed structured programming . But with an increase in project size, the complexity also exceeds and C cannot handle such complexity. C++ Language Object-oriented programming (OOP) was the way to handle structured programming limits. OOP is a programming methodology that helps organize co...