Introduction to C language

Introduction to C language :

 C is a general purpose programming language. It was developed by  'Dennis Ritchie ' in 1972 at AT & T Bell lab USA. It was standardised by ANSI ( American National standard institute). C language is closely related to Unix operating system because C language is used for the replenishment of the Unix operating system because most of the programs in Unix are written in C language.

                                                                        Dennis ritchie 

 

Advantages of C language:-

• C is used to perform Embedded  system programming.
• C is a structured and procedural programming language.
• C is building blocks of many programming languages.
• Most of the parts of  compilers are written in C language so when its come to the performance nothing can beat C.
• C is very flexible ,or we can say that machine independent that helps you to run your code on any machine without making changes or just little changes in the code.
• C is rich in library. We can also add user defined functions to the standard library of C.

Disadvantages of C language:-

• C is a platform dependent language so by using C we can only develop standalone applications  i.e., application must be installed into the system to work with it.
• C is case sensitive language ( 'a' and 'A' are two different thing in C )
• Lack of exception handling is the major drawback of the C programming language.
• Its does not support the concept of OOPs( Object Oriented Programming standard).

Usage of C:-

⦁ Database system

⦁ Graphics packages

⦁ Word processors

⦁ Spread sheets

⦁ Operating system development

⦁ Compliers and Assemblers

⦁ Network drivers

⦁ Interpreters

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This blog is contributed by Shivam Shukla .

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