C is the general purpose computer programming language development in 1972 by Dennis Richie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was named "C" because many of its features were derived from an earlier language called "B" , which according to Ken Thompson was a stripped - down version of the BCPL programming language.
Although C was designed for implementing system software. It is also widely used for developing portable application software.
C is a one of the most popular programming language. It is widely used on many different software platform, and there are few computer architecture for which a C compiler does not exit. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming language, most notably C++,which originally began as an extension to c.
C language had become powerful enough that most of the Unix level was rewritten in C. This was one of the first operating system kernels implemented in a language other than assembly.
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