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C Is A General-Purpose, Structural Language - It Is Associated With The UNIX

C is a general-purpose, structural language associated with UNIX and most UNIX programs. It bridges machine language and high-level languages, allowing flexibility for both systems and applications programming. C was developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, drawing from BPCL and B. By providing data types where its predecessors were typeless, C became popular in the 1980s as many products were rewritten in C for its efficiency and portability.

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C Is A General-Purpose, Structural Language - It Is Associated With The UNIX

C is a general-purpose, structural language associated with UNIX and most UNIX programs. It bridges machine language and high-level languages, allowing flexibility for both systems and applications programming. C was developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, drawing from BPCL and B. By providing data types where its predecessors were typeless, C became popular in the 1980s as many products were rewritten in C for its efficiency and portability.

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INTRODUCTION of c:

C is a general-purpose,Structural language.It is associated with the UNIX


operating system where it was developed, since both the system and most of the
programs are written in C only. The main features of C is bridging the gap between
machine language and the more conventional high-level languages. This flexibility
allows C to be used for systems programming (e.g., for writing operating
systems) as well as for applications programming(e.g.,for writing a program to
bill customers).

History of c:

C was originally developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Telephone


Laboratories, Inc. (now a part ofAT&T).many of the ideas of C comes from Two
languages called BPCL and B, which were also developed at Bell Laboratories.
BCPL and B are ``typeless'' languages. By contrast, C provides a variety of data
types. By the mid 1980s, the popularity of C had become widespread. Moreover,
many commercial software products that were originally written in other languages
were rewritten in C in order to take advantage of its efficiency and its portability.

Characteristics of C:

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