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History of C language is interesting to know. Here we are going to discuss a brief history of the c language.

C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone 

& Telegraph), located in the U.S.A.

Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.

It was developed to overcome the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, etc.

Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX operating system. It inherits many features of previous 

languages such as B and BCPL.

Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C language.

Features of C Language

C is the widely used language. It provides many features that are given below.

1.     Simple

2.     Machine Independent or Portable

3.     Mid-level programming language

4.     structured programming language

5.     Rich Library

6.     Memory Management

7.     Fast Speed

8.     Pointers

9.     Recursion

10.  Extensible