1) Who invented C Language?
Dennis Ritchie in
1972 developed a new language by inheriting the features of both BCPL and B and
adding additional features. He named the language as just C
2) Who invented B Language?
Ken Thomson at
AT&T Bell Labs developed a language and named it B. Even the B language was
found to have some short comings to support development of both business
applications and system software.
3) Who invented BCPL Language?
Basic
Combined Programming Language(BCPL) was developed by Martin
Richards, Cambridge
4) Why C Language?
C
is one of the high level languages. It is a general purpose language, which
means it can be used to write programs of any sort.
5) What are the features of C Langauges?
- In C one can write programs like
that of high level languages as in COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN etc. as well as
it permits very close interaction with the inner workings of the computer.
- It is a general purpose programming
language. It is usually called system programming language but
equally suited to writing a variety of applications.
- It supports various data types
- It follows the programming style
based on fundamental control flow constructions for structured programming
- Functions may be pre–defined or user defined and they may return values of basic types, structures, unions or pointers.
