What is C

C is one of the most popular programming languages of all time


C (pronounced "See") is a general-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the UNIX operating system. The origin of C is closely tied to the development of the Unix operating system.



C is an imperative (procedural) systems implementation language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.


Many people say C is old language now, but it is the basic language of all other. Operating system like Windows, UNIX, Linux still written in C. microprocessors are used in all electronic devices, C is used to interact with this microprocessors not only to work fast & to take less memory space.


“it all depends on how you C it” – Yashavant Kanetkar.


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