Maths Tips and Tricks: What is C Language and Its Need

INTRODUCTION ABOUT NEED OF "C LANGUAGE"

Since computer is a machine which is used for many purposes such as manipulation of data , scientific calculations , business data processing etc. It was further expanded to various fields of applications. Based on the applications, different programming languages were developed. For example:

FORTRAN was developed for scientific calculations

PASCAL was developed for general applications

COBOL was developed for business data processing

PROLOG AND LISP was developed for artificial intelligence applications.

Then there was need for language which would be used to develop system programs. " C " i.e new programming language was developed to fulfil this requirement.

WHAT IS "C LANGUAGE":

DINNIS RITCHIE

C is both general purpose and specific purpose programming language. C is high level language. It is powerful

programming language. C is developed by DINNIS RITCHIE and BRAIN KERNIGHAN.

C is developed at AT AND T'BELLS LABORATORY , USA in 1972. C is generally derived from two early proramming languages

BCPL(basic combined programming language)
B language

MARTIN RICHARDS developed "BCPL Language" and KEN THOMPSON developed "B Language". For UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM MR. KEN THOMPSON design a Language on PDP-7 Machine.In 1972, DENNIS RITCHIE developed new version of B and named it as C. His thinking behind name given to C is that C comes after B in alphabetical order which shows advancement to B. Basically there was a plan to develop UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM using C language. As C is strongly associated with unix operating system , it also runs on various operating systems including Window 95/98, MS-DOS etc.

In 1978 both DENNIS RITCHIE AND BRAIN KERNINGHAN publish a detailed description of C language. C is Case Sensitive Language means written in Lowercase letters.

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