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C is a structured programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972, designed to facilitate modular programming and ease debugging. It evolved from previous languages like B and BCPL, with the ANSI C standard adopted in 1989 and further amendments leading to C99 in 1999. C remains widely used and serves as the foundation for C++, emphasizing its procedural programming capabilities.

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Manish

C is a structured programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972, designed to facilitate modular programming and ease debugging. It evolved from previous languages like B and BCPL, with the ANSI C standard adopted in 1989 and further amendments leading to C99 in 1999. C remains widely used and serves as the foundation for C++, emphasizing its procedural programming capabilities.

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Introduction

C is a popualar general programming language. C language ha been designed and develpoed by dennis
Richie at Bell Laboratories in 1972

C is a structured language It is similar in may ways to other structural language such as Pascal,
FORTRAN, etc.

A Structured language allows variety of programs in small modules. It is easy for debugging, testing, and
maintenance if a language is a structured one structured language are easier, and most of the
developers prefer these language than the non-structured languages It provide loop constucts lioke
while, do-while and for. The user is required to think of a problem in terms of function blocks. With
appropriate collection of different modules, the programmer can make a complere program.

histtory

It wa developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc.

Initially, c language was developed to used in UNIX operating systee. It inherits many features of previous
languages such as B and BCPL.

BCPL was developed by martin Richards, and it influenced a language called B< which was invented by
ken Thompson. B led to the developed og C in the 1970s,

For many years, the de facto standard for C was the version supplied with the UNIX operating system. In
the summmer of 1983 a committee was eastablished to create an ASCI (Ameracan Nationa Standard
Institute)standard that would define the C language. The standardization process took six years (much
longer than anyone reasonably expected).

The ANSI C standard was finaly adopted in December 1989, with the first copies becoming available in
early 1990. The standard Organization , and the resulting standard was typically refered to as ANSI/ISO
standard C. In 1995. Amendment 1 to the C standard

was adopted, which among other things, added several new library functions the 1989 standard for C,
along with Amendment 1, became a base documents standard C++, defining the subset of C++, The
version of C defined by 1989 standard is commonly to as C89.

During the 1990s, a new standard for C was being developed. It was the 1999 standard for C, usally
refered to as c99. In general, C99 retained nearly the features of C89. The C99. standardization
committee focused on the two areas: the addition of several numeric libaries and the development of
special-use, but highly innovative, new features. such as variavbles-length and the restrict pointer
qualier. These innovations have once again put C at the forefront of computer language development.

C89 is the version of C in widnest use, It is currenty accepted by all C compiler and it forms the basics for
C++.
C is a structured languages. It is similar in may way to other strutured language such as Pascal, FORTAN,
etc. A structured language allows variety of programs in small modules. It is easy for debuging testing,
maintance if a language is a stuctured one. tha the mon-structured are easier most of the developers
prefers these language than the non-structured ones BASIC and COBOL , Programming is a bit tough as
compard to structyured languages, It provides loop constures like while, do-while and for. The required
to think of a problem in terms of function blocks. With appropred collection of different modules, the
programmer can make a complete program

Features of C language

1 C is a procedural progprammomg

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