Reputation: 22841
Since C was developed as a general purpose language and is not owned by a private company in general, can the standardization process be explained?
I mean how did this standardization process come about?
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Reputation: 53516
There is a whole page dedicated to information on the C standard committee aka JTC1/SC22/WG14.
Actually JTC1 is the IT standards group and SC22 is the programming langages standards sub committee and WG14 is the C standards sub sub committee.
Also, the History section of the C Programming Language on Wikipedia is very informative.
[update] Here is the most complete history of C I can find from Bell Labs.
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