C is a programming language developed at AT & T‟s Bell Laboratories of USA in 1972. It
was designed and written by Dennis Ritche. Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of c
language.
It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL etc.
Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system.
Features of C
1. Portability or machine independent
2. Sound and versatile language
3. Fast program execution.
4. An extendible language.
5. Tends to be a structured language.
