C Language Introduction

C is a computer programming language which is used to develop operating systems and standalone applications. It was initially developed by Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie at Bell Telephonic Laboratories in the year 1972. It is also called Structured Oriented Programming language and follow character set rules.

Every language have own character sets. C language support ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) character set to Unicode and decode the language. ASCII set means only English language. C language have only ASCII format which means it only understand only English language.

Before C language there was so many programming language which was used by programmer such as BASIC, FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, PASCAL etc. These programming language was used by programmer to the application and these programming languages was called Procedural Programming language.

What is procedural programming language?

Procedural programming language was used in earlier computers. It was totally based on symbolic and mnemonic codes which were very difficult to understand by programmers who use these languages.

Why Dennis Ritchie developed C language?

As we know before C language there was various programming language like BASIC, FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, PASCAL etc. People were facing problems with these languages because these languages did not follow any standard and formats. They started complaining about these languages to industry expert who developed these languages. After that Dennis Ritchie took the all problems and started working on these problems. At the end Dennis Ritchie developed C programming language. So that's why Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language to overcome from these problems.

What was the problems with procedural programming language?

• Syntax Problems.
• Variable declaration was difficult.
• No Code reusability.
• Redundant code.
• Lengthy code.
• Complexity
• More Memory consumption.
• Execution time was slow.
• More duration.

So these types of problems people were facing, who use this languages. To overcome from this problem C programming language developed.

Example of C program

	#include<stdio.h>
	#include<conio.h>

	Void main()
	{
		int var = 10;
		printf('The value of A is:- %d",var);

		getch();
	}

Output:

	
 The value of A is:- 10