C was developed by Dennis Ritchie in the year 1972 at AT&T Bell Laboratories.It is a structured programming language.It is a highly portable language which means programs written in C language can run on other machines.It was mainly developed as a system Programming Language to write an operating system.

It is suitable for both System Programming as well as Application Programming.C language is widely used in embedded systems, developing system applications, desktop applications, developing browsers and their extensions, developing operating systems, databases, IOT applications etc.,