It was named C due to the fact that its predecessor was called B, and since the language was a progression from B, they called it C, the next letter in the alphabet after B.
There is no meaning for the C in C-language. Previously , there was a language called BCPL (Basic combined programming language) ,Ken thompson improved this language and named as B language. After several modifications and inclusion of advanced features such as Pointers , Dennis Richie named it as C , (C comes after B in Alphabetical Order) So , name for that Language came in this way. Later Bjourne Strostrup included Object Oriented features to C , and Named 'C with Classes ' and later C++.
I am guessing you typed the question wrong, the way I understand your question is "Why is the programming language named C++ and not C ? " The answer to this is that there is a programming language called C, and in that programming language the ++ means increment by one. So C++ is the language C improved, as such it can read and compile all C programs in addition to having other features that C does not have.
Because it was based on the B language.
The language was called the "C" language because it was a kind of successor of the "B" language.
Before the invention of C, there was a language named 'B'. So, to overcome some drawbacks in this B-language, C had been invented.
C-language had got its name (as C following B) due to a reason that its features were derived from the language named 'B'.
C-language had got its name (as C following B) due to a reason that its features were derived from the language named 'B'.
because it come aftr language b used before c by mukul chauhan jnit
Before C there was BCPL -- Basic Combined Programming Language -- which influenced a language called "B". Then a new language developed as an enhanced version of B, so it was named C.
C derives from a programming language called B, that existed before it. Since C was something of a successor to it, to indicate the advancement from B., the language is called C, the next letter.
C comes from B & B comes from BCPL........... TO overcome the problems of BCPL they developed B (First char of BCPL)....& B also has some disadvantages so they go for next level i.e, B's next Letter .........:::::::C ..........then v called it as C language. C comes from B & B comes from BCPL........... TO overcome the problems of BCPL they developed B (First char of BCPL)....& B also has some disadvantages so they go for next level i.e, B's next Letter .........:::::::C ..........then v called it as C language.
The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ (originally named "C with Classes") in 1983 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C programming language.