C is a general purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the unix operating system
Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing portable application software
C is the one of the most used programming language of all time and there are very few computer architectures for which a C compiler does not exist. C has greatly influence many other popular programming language, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C
What are the uses of 'C language'?
C is often used for "system programming", including implementing operating systems and embedded system applications, ability to access specific hardware addresses, ability to pun types to match externally imposed data access requirements, and low run-time demand on system resources. .Some reasons for choosing C over interpreted languages are its speed, stability, and near-universal availability.
C is wide availability and efficiency is that compilers, libraries, and interpreters of other programming languages are often implemented in C. The primary implementations of Python , Perl 5, and PHP are all written in C.
Due to its thin layer of abstraction and low overhead, C allows efficient implementations of algorithms and data structures, which is useful for programs that perform a lot of computations.
C is sometimes used as an intermediate language by implementations of other languages. C was designed as a programming language, not as a compiler target language, and is thus less than ideal for use as an intermediate language. This has led to development of C-based intermediate languages such as C--.
C has also been widely used to implement end-user applications, but much of that development has shifted to newer languages.
