Computer Language
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Computer Language
Introduction
The computer programming language C has become one of the most popular and
significant programming languages in the past thirty years. In spite of the popularity of
other newer languages, C stays in the top ten of desired languages in the software industry.
This paper analyzes the history, advantages and disadvantages of language C.
History of C
The C language was developed from BCPL and B by Dennis Ritchie of Bell
Laboratories in 1972 after Martin Richards created BCPL in 1967 and Ken Thompson
developed the B language in 1970. C is primarily used as the programming language of
the UNIX operating system and rapidly spread. Nowadays, most operating systems are
written in C because of its standardization. ANSI/ISO C standards, C90 and C99, were
published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and International
Standards Organization (ISO) in 1990 and 1999. In addition, an extension of C, C++, was
created in the early 1980s and the development of JAVA was based on C and C++.
Advantages of C
Having fewer than forty keywords, C is a relatively small and efficient programming
language. The compact block-structure, the good performance and the most efficient
memory usage let C remain the dominant embedded development language while many
newer programming languages keep developing.
Being a leader in portability, C is a hardware-independent and standardized language.
With little or no modification, C applications written on one system can be run on many
different systems by depending on widely available C compilers that convert C source
code into machine code. The input and output are accomplished through the sufficient use
of function calls instead of input and output statements which must be tied to specific
hardware.
C is a...
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