No. C already existed prior to the ANSI standardization process, so there was nothing "to be developed", though a few changes were made to the language, in par

No. C already existed prior to the ANSI standardization process, so there was nothing "to be developed", though a few changes were made to the language, in particular function prototypes. C was being used in this fashion, and the ANSI standards committee made it clear that it wanted the standard to maintain that use-case.