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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.