Thursday, 30 January 2014

History Of C programming language



       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, C was formalized by American National Standard Institute (ANSI)
  • C was invented to write UNIX operating system
  • C is a successor of 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.

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