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Fundamental C Language

Present by Sadam Hussain

Teacher: Sir Shahzad Ali

Roll No:129
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• Agenda
• Concept of Programming language
• Why we use C language
• History of C Language
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Programming Languages Concepts

1. What is a programming language?
– A "programming language" is a means of
communication between a human being
(programmer) and a computer. A programmer uses
this means of communication in order to give the
computer instructions. These instructions are called
"programs".
– A programming language is a set of rules that
provides a way of telling a computer what operations
to perform.
– A programming language can be used to write
programs that control the hardware e.g.: Embedded
processor in Refrigerator, Air conditioner, Microwave
oven etc.
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Programming Languages Concepts

2. Why do we need programming languages?
A computer cannot understand our language that we use in our day to day
conversations, and likewise, we cannot understand the binary language
that the computer uses to do it’s tasks.

Programming languages have been developed for the purpose of

communicating with computers.

1. Facilitate users in performing tasks which are:

1. Faster,
2. Correct, and
3. Economically cheaper
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Why use C?
• The C is a general-purpose, procedural computer programming language
developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories
to develop the UNIX operating system.
• Mainly because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code written in
assembly language. Some examples of the use of C might be:
– Operating Systems
– Language Compilers
– Assemblers
– Text Editors
– Network Drivers
– Modern Programs
– Data Bases
– Language Interpreters
– Utilities
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History of C language
• 1960 : -
– ALGOL was found by International group of computer users.
– COBOL was found for commercial application usage.
– FORTRAN was found for scientific applications.
• In 1967: -
– Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL)
– developed by Martin Richards at Cambridge University.
– a single language which can program all possible applications,
• In 1970: -
– a language called B was developed by Ken Thompson at AT & T’s Bell
Labs.
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History of C language
• In 1972: -
– Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs developed a
language with some additional features of BPCL
and B called C.
• In 1978: -
– Publication of The C Programming Language by
Kernighan & Ritchie caused a revolution in the
computing world.
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