The C Language

The C language is the most successful software language ever devised. Developed between 1969 and 1973 along with the Unix operating system, it has always been a pragmatic language for solving its developere problems. Limitations of early hardware (it first ran on a DEC PDP-11 with 24K of memory) forced it to be a small language, but this is one of its strengths. Since C’s simple semantics closely fit those of typical processors, C compilers produce compact, efficient code.