ABOUT C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

  • 💻C  is  a  general purpose  computer  programming  language  developed  in  1972  by Dennis  Ritchie  at  the  Bell  Telephone  Laboratories  for  use  with  the  Unix  operating system. 
  • 💻It was named 'C' because many of its features were derived from an earlier language called 'B'.
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  • 💻Many of the ideas of structure of C language were taken from BCPL and B. Ritchie has given an excellent exposition of the problems experienced during development of C in his lecture entitled "The Development of the C Language". 

  • 💻Although  C  was  designed  for  implementing  system  software,  it  is  also  widely used  for  developing  portable  application  software. 

  • 💻C  is  one  of  the  most  popular  programming  languages  of  all  time  and  there  are  very  few  computer  architectures  for  which  say  C  compiler  does  not  exist.  C  has  greatly  influenced  many  other  popular  programming  languages,  most  notably  C++,  which  began  as  an  extension  to  C. 

Features of C Language
  • Simple
  • Machine Independent or Portable.
  • Rich Library
  • Memory Management
  • Fast Speed
  • Mid-level
  • structured
  • Pointers

Applications of C Language
  • Operating System
  • Compilers
  • Print Spooler
  • Assemblers
  • Tex Editors
  • Embedded System
  • Language Interpreters

Check your knowledge to complete this basic C Programming Quiz.