History of C Language:

Since 1950, FORTRAN is using for scientific application and COBOL for Business applications.  A research for general purpose language has started.

CPL – Common Programming Language

BCPL – Basic Common Programming Languages

B – First Letter in BCPL

C – Second Letter in BCPL.

C was developed in AT&T’s Bell Laboratory in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie.  C was originally developed for use in UNIX platform.  Later, entire UNIX operating system was re-written by C Language.

C is general purpose, structured programming Language.

Features of C

1. C can be used to develop system as well as application software.
2. Portable
3. Supports variety of data types like int, float etc
4. Procedure Oriented Programming Language
5. Provides built-in functions
6. Execution is fast than other high level language programs.
7. Middle level Language