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History

C is a general-purpose, high-level language that was originally developed by Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. C was originally first implemented on the DEC PDP-11 computer in 1972.

In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie produced the first publicly available description of C, now known as the K&R standard.

The UNIX operating system, the C compiler, and essentially all UNIX applications programs have been written in C. The C has now become a widely used professional language for various reasons.

          Easy to learn
        
          Structured language

          It produces efficient programs.

           It can handle low-level activities.

           It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms.

Facts about C

           C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.

           C is a successor of B language which was introduced around 1970

           The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).

           The UNIX OS was totally written in C by 1973. 

           Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.

           Most of the state-of-the-art softwares have been implemented using C.

           Today's most popular Linux OS and RBDMS MySQL have been written in C.