C Language Overview

 The C programming language is a general-purpose, high-level language that was originally developed by Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. C was originally first implemented on the DEC PDP-11 computer in 1972. In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie produced the first publicly available description of C, now known as the K&R standard. The UNIX operating system, the C compiler, and essentially all UNIX applications programs have been written in C. The C has now become a widely used professional language for various reasons.  Easy to learn  Structured language  It produces efficient programs.  It can handle low-level activities.  It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms. Facts about C  C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.  C is a successor of B language, which was introduced around 1970.  The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute. (ANSI).  The UNIX OS was totally written in C by 1973

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oday, C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.  Most of the state-of-the-art softwares have been implemented using C.  Today's most ][popular Linux OS and RBDMS MySQL have been written in C. Why to use C? C was initially used for system development work, in particular the programs that make up the operating system. C was adopted as a system development language because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code written in assembly language. Some examples of the use of C might be:  Operating Systems  Language Compilers  Assemblers  Text Editors  Print Spoolers  Network Drivers  Modern Programs  Databases  Language Interpreters  Utilities C Programs A C program can vary from 3 lines to millions of lines and it should be written into one or more text files with extension ".c"; for example, hello.c. You can use "vi", "vim" or any other text editor to write your C program into a file. This tutorial assumes that you know how to edit a text file and how to write source code using any programming language.

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