PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Whatis C?

C is a programming language developed at AT and T's Bell laboratories in USA in 1972.It was designed and written by Dennis Ritchie.In late seventees and began to replace the more familiar language of the time like PL/I,ALGOL.

Why 'C' is useful?
There are several excellent language but due to the following reason many computer professional feels that C is at the top of the list.

1.C is a powerful and flexible language.C can follow your
imagination.C is used for projects as diverse as operating system
word processor,graphics and even compilers for other languages.

2.C is a popular language prefer by professional programmers.As a
result a wide variety of C compilers and helpful accessories are
available.

3.C is a portable language.Portable means that a program written for
one computer system can be compiled and run on another system with
title or no modification portability is enhanced by ANSI standard
for C.

4.C is language of few word containing only a handful of terms
called by word.

5.C is modular.C code can be written in routine called
functions.These function can be re used in other application or
programs.