•C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.
•C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early 1970s.
•The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
•The UNIX OS was totally written in C.
•Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.
•Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.
•Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.
