Intro of C

Basic of C language

Introduction: C language was designed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories between 1969 and 1972. There were many developments of C language between 1969 and 1972. And final language came into existence in 1972. Like other languages C language was undergone a number of versions. In every new version many new features were added to make it more powerful and more useful. It was not written as a teaching help, but as an implementation language. It was developed for developing operating systems, utility programs and compilers. C is a powerful structured and module programming. Like most high level languages, C is a modular programming language. In which each task can be developed as a module. It was written when computers were big and they capital equipments.

                        C language is mainly influenced by the language B, which was further influenced by the BCPL language. C language was also influenced by the languages such as CPL, Assembly, FORTRAN and ALGOL. This C language further influenced some languages such as C++, C--, C sharp, Java, JavaScript and Perl etc.

                        C language is known as middle level language because it consist the features of low level language and high level language. Low level features are used for low level programming and High level features are used for high level programming and mostly the high level programming is developed.

                        The first major use of C language was to write an operating system called UNIX. The success of UNIX operating system and its features brought the consequent popularity for the C language. It was standardized in 1989 by ANSI (American National Standards Institute) known as ANSI C.