The C is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop the Unix operating system.
The C is the most widely used computer language, it keeps fluctuating at number one scale of popularity along with Java programming language which is also equally popular and most widely used among modern software programmers.
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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 software's have been implemented using C.
- Today's most popular Linux OS and RBDMS MySQL have been written in C.
The C Compiler
The source code written in source file is the human readable source for your program. It needs to be "compiled", to turn into machine language so that your CPU can actually execute the program as per instructions given.This C programming language compiler will be used to compile your source code into final executable program. I assume you have basic knowledge about a programming language compiler.Most frequently used and free available compiler is GNU C/C++ compiler, otherwise you can have compilers either from HP or Solaris if you have respective Operating Systems.
