C is a procedural programming language. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie in the year 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs. It has since become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time . Many later languages have borrowed syntax directly or indirectly from C, including C++, C#, Unix's C shell, D, Go, Java, JavaScript, Limbo, LPC, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Rust, Swift, and Verilog. C language was invented for implementing UNIX operating system. The C programming language is used for developing system applications that forms a major portion of operating systems such as Windows, UNIX and Linux. - Programming in C, C Study Materials