History of "C" Programming Language

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Process of Programming: Basics

History of "C" Programming Language

Ø  In the year 1972 the scientist ‘Dennis Ritchie’ developed new programming language, coined as ‘C’.        

Ø  The name ‘C’ given because it had superseded the old programming language ‘B’.

Ø  Initial goal behind writing C as programming language was to write operating system.

Ø  The language was simple, flexible and easy to understand that’s why it became popular programming language.

 

  ‘C’Features :

 

  •  Fast and Efficient :C programs are fast and efficient one due to variety of data type and powerful operators.
  • Portable: C is Portable. This means it is platform independent and can run on different platforms with little or no modification in source code.
  • Functions and Rich Libraries:User can write his own function and add in c library.
  • Modularity: Modularity programming is a software design technique in which software is divided into multiple parts called as modules.
  • Extensible (Easy to extend):Programmer can easily add new features as per his requirement.
  •  Case Sensitive:C is case sensitive language as it easily differentiate lower case and upper case character.

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