Introduction to C language

C is a programming language and was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratory and was designed to run on a PDP-11 with UNIX Operating System. Althought at first it was intended to run under UNIX but now it has been a great interest in runnig under MS-DOS operating sustem on the IBM PC and compatibles. Its a brilliant language because of its simplicity and compactness of the code and it has wide range of application still in the twenty first century. Due to its simplicity and compactness of its code, it is usually called the first high level language available on any new computers, including the microcomputers, minicomputers and mainframes. {Also See: Getting Started with C}

C program has wide renge of applicaltion, it allows a programmer wide range of operations from high level to low level as well approaching the level of assembly language. According to a experianced C programmer, one can program anything in C.