How did C get its name ?

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History behind C -

It was started with a joke, there was a language developed by Martin Richard known as BCPL, and Ken Thompson as the basis for a language he called it B (as a shorter form of BCPL). Because C is the successor of B so Kernighan and Ritchie called their language C.

BCPL even get its name from language CPL which stands for "Combined Programming Language".
The "Combined Programming Language" have few problems like-
  • It was Complex
  • Difficult to Write
  • Difficult to Compile
Martin Richard simplified it by removing those features of the full language which make compilation difficult, by creating "Basic CPL" or BCPL

Source:
"The C Programming language" (2nd edition), by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

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