Who is the inventor of the C language?

Correct answer: Dennis Ritchie. Dennis Ritchie created the C language at Bell Labs in the early 1970s.

Background: C was used to write the UNIX operating system.

• James Gosling: James Gosling created Java.
• Bjarne Stroustrup: Bjarne Stroustrup created C++.
• Guido: Guido van Rossum created Python.

Did you know? C++ was built on C.

Memory trick: C = Ritchie.