--- title: "Which programming language was used for writing the popular operating system UNIX?" description: "Which programming language was used for writing the popular operating system UNIX?" author: "Oasge Christiansen" published: 2017-12-07 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31478/which-programming-language-was-used-for-writing-the-popular-operating-system-unix category: "technology" tags: ["unix"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # Which programming language was used for writing the popular operating system UNIX? Which [programming](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12214/web-development-company-in-india-laid-on-the-foundation-of-concrete-java-programming) [language](https://www.mindstick.com/startup/28/preply-the-fast-growing-platform-transforming-language-learning) was used for [writing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23547/5-golden-rules-for-writing-excellent-college-papers) the popular [operating system](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/229069/operating-system-development) UNIX? ## Answers ### Answer by Arti Mishra ## "C Programming" **C Programming language** is mainly used for **developing UNIX based operating system**. It is **developed in 1972** by **Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories**. It is mainly used for **creating system based programming.** ## \ ![Which programming language was used for writing the popular operating system UNIX?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2b043c2d-0571-43a8-87f5-663260f408bc/images/a726256f-19e5-48a5-aea9-c3fbcee2d3b8.jpeg) \ It is also **known as mother language** because **most of the compilers, interpreters, JVM, Kernel …etc**. are written in C programming Language and also almost programming language follows the syntax of C programming. \ **"Thanks!!! for Reading"** --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31478/which-programming-language-was-used-for-writing-the-popular-operating-system-unix Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.