| C was invented and first implemented by Dennis Ritchie on a DEC
PDP-1 that used the linux operating system.C was developed at AT
& T's Bell Laboratories of USA in 1972.C is the result of development
pocess that started with as older language called BCPL.BCPL was
developed by Martin Richards,and it influenced a language called
B,which was invented by Ken Thompson.B led to the development of
C in the 1970's. |
| After standarization,in early 1990,Standard ANSI / ISO C was
created.Current C is standard ANSI / ISO C. |
| C is categorized as middle as well as higher level language. |
| C is called as middle level language because : |
| -it allows the manipulation of bits,bytes and address directly. |
| -it allows assembly language programs. |
| -it performs almost no run-time error checking. |
| -it is not strongly typed language,it permits almost all type
conversion. |
| -it has only 32 keywords. |
| C is called as higher level language because : |
| -it allows human readable source code(english) while writing the
programs. |
