This description was written by a machine and published without a person checking it. It is what the agent made of this grouping, and not a statement anybody has stood behind.
The designer's own account
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
A language's designer explaining how it came to be, chiefly from the History of Programming Languages conferences. Membership: the author designed the thing described.
4 references
The development of the C programming language
Dennis M. Ritchie (1996) · History of Programming languages · Association for Computing Machinery
A history of C++ 1979–1991
Bjarne Stroustrup (1996) · History of Programming Languages---II · Association for Computing Machinery
A History of CLU
Barbara Liskov (1993) · MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
The development of the C language
Dennis M. Ritchie (1993)