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Lect2 History of C

C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to create the UNIX operating system. It is a general-purpose, procedural programming language that is widely used for system programming. C is easy to learn, produces efficient programs, and can be compiled on many platforms. It was used to write UNIX and is still commonly used today for writing operating systems and databases like Linux and MySQL. A basic C program includes preprocessor commands, functions, variables, statements, expressions, and comments like "Hello World" which prints that text.

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Lect2 History of C

C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to create the UNIX operating system. It is a general-purpose, procedural programming language that is widely used for system programming. C is easy to learn, produces efficient programs, and can be compiled on many platforms. It was used to write UNIX and is still commonly used today for writing operating systems and databases like Linux and MySQL. A basic C program includes preprocessor commands, functions, variables, statements, expressions, and comments like "Hello World" which prints that text.

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History of C language

History of C language

 C programming is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming


language.
 It was developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop
the UNIX operating system.
 C is the most widely used computer language.
Why to Learn C Programming?

 C programming language is a MUST for students and working professionals to


become a great Software Engineer specially when they are working in Software
Development Domain. Following are the key advantages of learning C
Programming:
 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.
Structure of a C Program
Hello World Example
A C program basically consists of the following parts −
 Preprocessor Commands
 Functions
 Variables
 Statements & Expressions
 Comments
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
/* my first program in C */
printf("Hello, World! \n");
}
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