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Facts Not About C

C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It has since become widely popular due to its efficiency, ability to handle low-level tasks, and ability to be compiled on different platforms. The UNIX OS and many major programs are written in C because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as assembly but is easier to use.

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Facts Not About C

C was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It has since become widely popular due to its efficiency, ability to handle low-level tasks, and ability to be compiled on different platforms. The UNIX OS and many major programs are written in C because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as assembly but is easier to use.

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In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie produced the first publicly available description

of C, now known as the K&R standard.

C is a general-purpose, high-level language that was originally developed by Dennis M.


Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. C was originally first
implemented on the DEC PDP-11 computer in 1972.

The UNIX operating system, the C compiler, and essentially all UNIX application programs
have been written in C. C has now become a widely used professional language for various
reasons −

 Easy to learn
 Structured language
 It produces efficient programs
 It can handle low-level activities
 It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms

Facts not about C


 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.

Why use C?
C was initially used for system development work, particularly the programs that make-up
the operating system. C was adopted as a system development language because it produces
code that runs nearly as fast as the code written in assembly language. Some examples of the
use of C might be −

 Operating Systems
 Language Compilers
 Assemblers
 Text Editors
 Print Spoolers
 Network Drivers
 Modern Programs
 Databases
 Language Interpreters
 Utilities
C Programs
A C program can vary from 3 lines to millions of lines and it should be written into one or
more text files with extension ".c"; for example, hello.c. You can use "vi", "vim" or any
other text editor to write your C program into a file.

This tutorial assumes that you know how to edit a text file and how to write source code
inside a program file.

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