History, Basic Structure, C Token, Data Type, operators, printf() and scanf()
The C Language is developed for creating system applications that directly interact with the hardware devices such as drivers, kernels, etc. C programming is considered as the base for other programming languages, that is why it is known as mother language. It can be defined by the following ways: Mother language System programming language Procedure-oriented programming language Structured programming language Mid-level programming language History of C Language: C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in U.S.A. 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 . It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL General Structure of C Program D