HISTORY OF C

C is general purpose structured programming language developed in 1972 at Bell laboratories by Dennis Ritchie. Many of  the important ideas of C stem from language BCPL, which is developed by Martin Richards. The influence of BCPL on C proceed indirectly through the language B, which was written by Ken Thompson.


FEATURES OF C LANGUAGE

C provides a variety of data type. The main types are characters, integers, floating-point. In addition there is hierarchy of derived data types created with pointers, arrays, structures, functions and unions. C language has 32 keywords. C provides control instructions to control the sequence of execution of various statements. C language is useful for writing compilers and OS. C language is not tied to any one OS. C code is also vary portable.


SIMPLE C PROGRAM 

    #include <stdio.h>

      int main()

        {

             printf ("Welcome to Learn C With Abi.");

             return 0;

        }

      OUTPUT →  Welcome to Learn C With Abi.