Definition of C Language

"C programming" is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop the UNIX operating system. C is the most widely used computer language. It keeps fluctuating at the number one scale of popularity along with Java programming language, which is also equally popular and most widely used among modern software programmers. C is available for many different types of computers. This is why C is called a "portable language". A program that is written in C and that respects certain limitations can be compiled for many different platforms.


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