Lakshmi

Programming in C Introduction             C is a programming language. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T bell laboratories in the early 1970’s. C was an offspring of the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL) called B language. C language was designed from B language by adding some modifications to the B language. But C language compilers were not readily available for commercial use out side of the bell laboratories. So many programmers preferred C to older languages like FORTRAN or PL/I of the newer ones like PASCAL and APL.             Why c seems so popular is because it is reliable, simple, easy to use and easy to learn. First time C language compilers are available for UNIX operating system. The first C programming text is written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie but this book not provides complete information about C.             In 1983’s American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is the organization forms a committee for development of C lang