By 1960 a lot of computer language had come into existence almost each for a specific purpose like FORTRAN is used for engineering purposes, COBOL for commercial applications and so on at this stage people started thinking instead of learning all the languages for different, why not use only one language which can use the program all possible applications.
Therefore, an international committee comes out with the language with
ALGOL. It’s base on the programming language. after some time a programming language
(CPL)was developed at Cambridge University. However, CPL turned out to be so many features, that’s was very hard to learn and difficult to implement.
Basic combined programming language (BCPL)developed by martin rich at Cambridge university it was trying to solve the difficulties in the CPL language. But unfortunately, it turned out to be too less powerful. around some times
B was written by Thompson at AT &T’s bell labs. But like BCPL, B too turned out to be very specific.
Dennis Ritchie inherited the features of B and BCPL, added some of his own, and developed C. The main achievement is the restoration of lost generality in BCPL and B and still keeping it powerful.