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History of C

The document summarizes the history and development of the C programming language. It states that C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It was developed using the B programming language, which was itself based on the BCPL language developed by Martin Richards. C became widely popular and is now one of the most commonly used programming languages, with many modern operating systems like Linux and software programs being written in C due to its efficiency and ability to handle low-level tasks.

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History of C

The document summarizes the history and development of the C programming language. It states that C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to develop the UNIX operating system. It was developed using the B programming language, which was itself based on the BCPL language developed by Martin Richards. C became widely popular and is now one of the most commonly used programming languages, with many modern operating systems like Linux and software programs being written in C due to its efficiency and ability to handle low-level tasks.

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History of C language

By: Shakeel Ahamad


History of C language

 C programming is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language.


 It was developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at the AT &T bell Laboratories Murray hill New Jersey
to develop the UNIX operating system.
 C is the most widely used computer language.
 The C language is developed using the B language that is developed by the Ken Thompson at AT&T
Bell labs.
 The B language was adopted form a language called the BCPL (basic combined programming
language) which was developed by Martin Richards at Cambridge University.
Why to Learn C Programming?
• C programming language is a MUST for students and working
professionals to become a great Software Engineer specially when
they are working in Software Development Domain. Following are the
key advantages of learning C Programming:
• 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 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).Most of the
modern compiler conform to this standards.
 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.
Structure of a C Program

Preprocessor Directories
Pre-Processor Directives
• List of pre-processor directives :
• #include
• #define
• #undef
• #ifdef
• #ifndef
• #if
• #else
• #elif
• #endif
• #error
• #pragma
1. #include

• The #include pre-processor directive is used to paste code of given file into current file. It is used include
system-defined and user-defined header files. If included file is not found, compiler renders error. It has
three variants:

• #include <file>
• This variant is used for system header files. It searches for a file named file in a list of directories specified by
you, then in a standard list of system directories.

• #include "file"
• This variant is used for header files of your own program. It searches for a file named file first in the current
directory, then in the same directories used for system header files. The current directory is the directory of
the current input file.

• #include anything else


• This variant is called a computed #include. Any #include directive whose argument does not fit the above
two forms is a computed include.
2. Macro’s (#define)
• Let’s start with macro, as we discuss, a macro is a segment of code
which is replaced by the value of macro. Macro is defined by #define
directive.
Syntax

• #define token value


• There are two types of macros:

• Object-like Macros
• Function-like Macros
Object-like Macros
The object-like macro is an identifier that is #include <stdio.h>
replaced by value. It is widely used to represent #define PI 3.1415
numeric constants. For example:
main()
#define PI 3.1415
{
Here, PI is the macro name which will be
replaced by the value 3.14. Let’s see an example printf("%f",PI);
of Object-like Macros : }
Output: 3.14000
2. Function-like Macros
The function-like macro looks like #include <stdio.h>
function call. For example:
#define MIN(a,b) ((a)<(b)?(a):(b))
void main() {
#define MIN(a,b) ((a)<(b)?(a):(b))
printf("Minimum between 10 and 20 is: %d\n", MIN(10,20));
Here, MIN is the macro name.
Let’s see an example of Function- }
like Macros :
Output:

Minimum between 10 and 20 is: 10


Thank you

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