Introduction to C Programming

Introduction to C Programming

If you have not read our previous posts then first read them to get a basic idea of Computer Programming and then continue here for  better understanding.

  • C language was designed by Dennis Ritchie 
  • C was Developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972 at bell laboratories  of AT&T located in U.S.A.
  • C is called as imperative ,procedural or structural Language.
  • C was invented to write UNIX operating system.
  • C file is saved with extension of .c
  • C is a successor of B language.
  • C was formalized in 1988 by ANSI.
  • C codes runs faster compared to other languages.
where C is used ?
  • C was adopted as a system development language because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code in assembly language.
  • C is used in follows:
  • OS development
  • Compiler design
  • Interpreter design
  • Network drivers
  • micro controllers
  • text editors
  • Databases
  • utilities etc..



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