History and use of c

History of C...

C is a high-level structured oriented programming language, used in general purpose programming, developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell labs, USA between 1969 and 1973.

In 1988, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has formalized the C language

C was invented to write UNIX operating system

C is a successor of ‘Basic Combined Programming Language’ (BCPL) called B language

Linux OS, PHP and MySQL is written in C

C has been written in assembly language

Uses of C language

In the beginning C was used for developing system applications e.g. :

Database Systems

Language Interpreters

Compilers and Assemblers

Operating Systems

Network Drivers

Word Processors

C has become very popular for various reasons

One of the early programming languages

Still the best programming language to learn quickly

C language is reliable, simple and easy to use

C language is a structured language

Modern programming concepts are based on C

It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms

Universities preferred to add C programming in their courseware

Features of C language

C is a robust language with rich set of built-in functions and operators.

Programs written in C are efficient and fast.

C is highly portable, programs once written in C can be run on another machines with minor or no modification.

C is basically a collection of C library functions, we can also create our own function and add it to the C library.