The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer ...

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 ...

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 ...