What is C Language and Its Need

INTRODUCTION ABOUT NEED OF "C LANGUAGE" 

Since computer is a machine which is used for many purposes such as manipulation of data , scientific calculations , business data processing etc. It was further expanded to various fields of applications. Based on the applications, different programming languages were developed. For example:

• FORTRAN was developed for scientific calculations

• PASCAL was developed for general applications

• COBOL was developed for business data processing

• PROLOG AND LISP was developed for artificial intelligence applications.

Then there was need for language which would be used to develop system programs. " C " i.e new programming language was developed to fulfil this requirement.

WHAT IS "C LANGUAGE": 

DINNIS RITCHIE

                                                             

C is both general purpose and specific purpose programming language. C is high level language. It is powerful

programming language. C is developed by DINNIS RITCHIE and BRAIN KERNIGHAN.    

C is developed at AT AND T'BELLS LABORATORY , USA in 1972. C is generally derived from two early proramming languages

1. BCPL(basic combined programming language)
2.  B language

MARTIN RICHARDS developed "BCPL Language" and KEN THOMPSON developed "B Language". For UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM MR. KEN THOMPSON design a Language on PDP-7 Machine.In 1972, DENNIS RITCHIE developed new version of B and named it as C. His thinking behind name given to C is that C comes after B in alphabetical order which shows advancement to B. Basically there was a plan to develop UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM using C language. As C is strongly associated with unix operating system , it also runs on various operating systems including Window 95/98, MS-DOS etc.

In 1978  both  DENNIS RITCHIE  AND  BRAIN KERNINGHAN  publish  a  detailed  description of C language. C is Case Sensitive Language means written in Lowercase letters.

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