History :

The C Language is one the powerful programming languages used to write computer programs for variety of applications. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories during the 1970's.

Why C language is important for programmers, IT Students and Developers?

C has flexible features to write programs for numerical, commercial and graphical applications. It is also used by engineers to write programs for lower level accessing along with assembly language. Many operating system programs for the latest computers and compilers are written using C language.

Some Information About C Language:

In 1988, C was formalized by American National Standard Institute (ANSI).

C was invented to write UNIX operating system.

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

Linux OS, PHP and MySQL is written in C.

C has been written in assembly language.

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.