1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

I don't code any more, but after seeing the copies of the C Programming Language books in the picture, I looked on my bookshelf and see I still have my original 1978 printing of the book that I used ...