Objective and History of C language

Objective

1. Why C language is so important?
2. History of C language

Why C language is so important?

• Worth to know about the C language
  1. Oracle is written in c
  2. Core libraries of android are written in c
  3. Mysql is written in c
  4. Almost every device driver is written in c
  5. A major part of the web browser is written in c
  6. Unix Operating system is developed in c
  7. C is the world’s most popular programming language

• For Students
  1. C is important to build programming skills
  2. Easy to learn
  3. Structured language
  4. C covers basic features of all programming languages
  5. The campus recruitment process also required c language in most of the case’s
  6. C is the most popular language for hardware-dependent programming 
  7. It produces efficient programs
  8. It can handle low-level activities

History of C language

• Level 1 

1. Developer name: Martin Richards
2. Language name: Basic Combined Programming Language(BCPL)
3. Year: 1966
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• Level 2

1. Developer name: ken Thomson
2. Language name: B Language (improved version of BCPL)
3. Year:1969
4. Details: Ken wants to create the operating system But that not possible with the existing programming language BCPL. so he decided to modify the BCPL and develop and a new language called the language. After that, he creates his operating system. And the name of his operating system called UNIX operating system.
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• Level 3

1. Developer name: Dennis Ritchie
2. Language name: C language (improved version of B language)
3. Year:1972 
4. Details: Dennis is the co-developer of the UNIX operating system with ken. Dennis decided to improve the B Language to provide more features in UNIX operating system Like Portability.
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