• Used to develop both application programs and system programs.
• Is a high-level programing language.
• Is both a general purpose and a specific purpoes programing language.
• Most popular and common programming language.
• Developed at Bell Telephone Laboratory, USA(Now AT&T) in 1972.
• By Dennis Ritchie & Brian Kerninghan

Characteristics of C

1. C is a general-purpose programing language.
2. It is a structured programing language.
3. Helps in the development of system programs.
4. Has a rich set of operators.
5. Provides compact representation for expressions.
6. Allows manipulation of internal processor registers.
7. Has no rigid format. Any number of statements can be typed in a single line.
8. Portability.
9. Supports a rich set of data types.
10. Very less number of reserved words.
11. Pointer arithmetic and manipulation.
12. Ability to extend itself by adding functions to it’s library.

• Every word in a C program is either a keyword or an identifier.
• All C keywords – lowercase letters.
• Execution of a C program starts with the main().
• There must be one and only one main() in every C program.
• Every C program uses a pair of curly braces – { and }.
• Compiling a C program – translating it into machine language.

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