What is C language?

C language is a computer programming language, which has the characteristics of both high-level language and assembly language.

1 was introduced in 1972 by D.M.Ritchie of Bell Institute in America. After 1978, C language was transplanted to large, medium and small computers. It can be used as a working system design language to write system applications, and it can also be used as an application programming language to write applications independent of computer hardware. It has a wide range of applications and many advantages. Not only in software development, but also in all kinds of scientific research, C language is needed. C language is suitable for compiling system software, three-dimensional and two-dimensional graphics and animation, as well as specific applications such as single chip microcomputer and embedded system development.

2.C language was named C because C language originated from B language invented by Ken Thompson, and B language originated from BCPL language 1967. Martin Richards of Cambridge University simplified the CPL language. In 1960s, Bell Laboratories of at&T Company (AT&; Ken Thompson, a researcher at TBell Lab, has nothing to do and his fingers itch. He wants to play a video game, space travel, which he made up himself to simulate sailing in the solar system. Behind his boss, he found an idle machine PDP-7, but this machine had no operating system, and the game had to use some functions of the operating system, so he began to develop an operating system for PDP-7, which was later named UNIX.