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Some basic and necessary information about c language you don't know

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.

Why to use C?
C was initially used for system development work, in particular the programs that make-up the operating system. C was adopted as a system development language because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code written in assembly language. Some examples of the use of C might be:
  • Operating Systems
  •     Language Compilers
  •   Assemblers
  •  Text Editors
  • Print Spoolers
  • Network Drivers
  • Modern Programs
  • Databases
  • Language Interpreters
  • Utilities

C Programs
A C program can vary from 3 lines to millions of lines and it should be written into one or more text files with extension ".c"; for example, hello.c. You can use "vi", "vim" or any other text editor to write your C program into a file.

This tutorial assumes that you know how to edit a text file and how to write source code inside a program file.

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