The C Programming
Language
by
R. Uma Mageswari M.Sc
Introduction
What is Language?
People should communicate should others its
called language.
In Computer OS does not know any human
speaking language. Its only know binary code
(0 and 1). Then the user interactive with
computer we created computer languages
There are so many varieties of computer
languages is there. We see some
examples
1. Assembly Languages
2. Middle level Languages
3. High Level Languages
The C Programming languages is
developed by Dennis Ritchie(1972) at Bell
Laboratories (the old version is BASIC). It
was mainly developed as a system
programming language to write the UNIX
operating system.
Features:
General Purpose and Portable
Low-level Memory Access
Fast speed
Clean syntax
Basic:
It suitable for system programming like an
operating system or compiler development.
It is a basic (or) platform of all high level
programming languages. (Java, Phython ,etc.)
C++ is a nearly a super set language.