C is a general purpose computer coding language which works closely with hardware. C was invented by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson with the help of their team mates at AT&T Bell Lab’s USA in the year 1969 but major development was made in the language in the year 1973 when it was actually published under the title “The C Programming Languageâ€, the same year.
One would wonder why Dennis and Ken named the language as C. The reason is that in the process of developing the language they had taken a lot of features from the existing language which was called B. So the language which they created was an advanced version of the B language, which is why they named their language C, funnily.
C is a basic language which is the building block of mostly all the languages present today. The language is platform independent. That means C does not need any specific platform for running. It can work on any operating system. There are many compilers which run C. As the language works close to the hardware it uses minimal space. Also the language is easy to understand as it has a user friendly language.
If one wants to become a programmer, this is the first language he should learn. Also nowadays in academics, this language is made compulsory in computer studies. All the new languages like Java, Microsoft .Net and many other languages have used C language as their building mechanism. All these languages are easy to learn if one has knowledge of the C language.
The boundary of C language is vast. It s not limited to just programming of applications. In fact it is also used in graphical applications. There are many games which uses high end graphics built using the language. The C language is so old compared to modern languages but despite that it still it stands apart from all these powerful languages.