C Language : An Introduction

"C" Language : An Introduction

C Language : An Introduction to C Language

• C is a programming language designed by 'Dennis Ritchie' at AT& T bell Labs in USA in 1972.
• The C programming language is the mother of the all programming languages.
• It is middle level language. It combine best features of low level language and flexibility of high level languages. It is machine and program dependable. 
• C is one of the most widely used programming language of all time. 

History C Language : 

• This was designed 'Dennis Ritchie' at AT& T bell Labs in USA in 1972.
• Ritchie was working on a project "Multics" in 1960s to develop an operating system for large computer that could be used by a thousand users. This was not an economically useful project so they had to make another project.
• The programming language C was written by Karnighan and ritchie, in a now classic book " The C programming Language: 1St edition. 

Characteristics of C language :

• It is a middle level language because it combines the best elements of high level language with the control and flexibility of low level language.
• It is function oriented. all additional tasks such as input and output, graphics math computations and access to peripheral devices are placed as library functions.
• C is a tool to create structured programming but it allows a programmer to forsake  the discipline of structured programming.
• It is powerful system programming language because of the access it provides to the addresses where variable are stored distinguishing C from languages like fortron and cobol.
• It is portable efficient easy to debug. 
• It is easy consice elegant language. 

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