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      CHARACTERISTICS OF C LANGUAGE C is a powerful and flexible general purpose language that has won widespread acceptance over the years. Several features make C a very attractive and popular programming language for coding solutions. The following are the characteristics of C: 1. Simplicity : C has the richest collection of in-built functions, keywords and data types. It also resembles general English language. Moreover, it follows a structured approach so it is easy to learn. 2. Clarity : The keywords and library functions available in C resembles common English words thus it helps to improve the clarity of the program. 3. Portability : C is highly portable language. By the term 'portable, we mean computer independent. The programs written on one computer can run on another computer having different operating system with little or no modification. 4. Case Sensitive : C is a case sensitive language. The identifiers written in uppercase letters are different from identifiers w

       INTRODUCTION WITH C LANGUAGE C is a powerful, efficient, general purpose structured programming language. It is a reliable, simple and easy to use therefore it has become a very popular programming language. It is not only limited to programming professionals and experts but any computer beginner who has knowledge of its syntax and programming methodology can make programs in it. Prior to C, the available programming languages such as BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN were not designed around structured principles. Instead they relied upon the GOTO as the primary means of program control. This was not of major concern when programs were small and simple. But i i case of large programs, a mass of tangled jumps and conditional branches made the program virtually impos sible to understand. Later a programming language, PASCAL was designed on structured principle, but it failed to include many important features and was not good for system programming. All these led to the development of the

                 History of C Language Computer performs certain tasks as per instructions given to it by the user. A program is a sequence of instructions that computer can interpret and execute. Earlier programs were written in machine code or assembly code. But these programs were very complex and difficult to write and anderstand. So high level programming languages evolved. The programs written in these languages were relatively easy to understand. The C language is one of the most popular high level programming Language The C language was developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT & T Bell laboratories, USA in 1972 for use with Unix operating system. Like most programming languages, C is derived from ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language), the first language to use a block structure which was introduced in early 1960's. Ahhough it was widely accepted in Europe but never gained wide acceptance in the United States.  Several obscure languages preceded the development of C language. In 1967, M