

program once written in C language can be executed on other machines also. It is portable or machine-independent also i.e. One major advantage is that it can be compiled on various platforms and produces efficient programs. In 1983 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) set up a committee to standardize the language as it was being used in projects concerning commercial and government projects. Many features of C were inherited from these languages while many new features were also introduced such as pointers, struct, data types etc. BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) and B. It is the successor of three structured languages i.e.


Linux OS, Perl, Matz’s Ruby, NumPy, Java’s first compiler, web servers like Apache, Nginx and RDBMS MySQL are all written in C. Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan published the first edition K & R C or “The C Programming Language” in 1978. It was invented for writing UNIX operating system. Ritchie between 19 at Bell Labs of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph) located in the U.S.A. C is a high-level general-purpose language developed by American computer scientist Dennis M.
