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    C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It has since become widely popular due to producing efficient programs, being easy to learn, and able to handle both high-level and low-level activities. C is a predecessor to many modern programming languages and is still commonly used today for systems programming tasks like operating systems, language compilers, databases, and network drivers.

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    C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It has since become widely popular due to producing efficient programs, being easy to learn, and able to handle both high-level and low-level activities. C is a predecessor to many modern programming languages and is still commonly used today for systems programming tasks like operating systems, language compilers, databases, and network drivers.

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    C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It has since become widely popular due to producing efficient programs, being easy to learn, and able to handle both high-level and low-level activities. C is a predecessor to many modern programming languages and is still commonly used today for systems programming tasks like operating systems, language compilers, databases, and network drivers.

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    C Language - Overview

    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 application programs
    have been written in C. 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 the early 1970s.

    The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute
    (ANSI).

    The UNIX OS was totally written in C.

    Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.

    Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.

    Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.

    Why use C?
    C was initially used for system development work, particularly 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 the 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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