Saturday, August 30, 2008

Learnings of the Week (aug 25-29)

During this week, we have tackled about the C language, its history, uses, features, and also about flowcharting.

Without the idea of Dennis Ritchie, C language would have not been discovered especially its relevance and importance to us. C was invented and first implemented by Dennis Ritchie to augment B's power, which was the first computer language before C.

C did not become immediately popular after its creation and took almost six years when many people read and learned the usefulness of the language after Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie created a famous book called "The Programming Language."

C was initially used for system development work, in particular the programs that make up the operating system. C is used mainly because it produces codes that run as fast as codes in assembly language.

Some examples of C are the operating system, the language compilers, assemblers, the text editors, the network devices, etc.

The features of C are: it is a simple core language, such as math functions and file handling; it focuses on a procedural programming paradigm which facilitates for programming in a structured style and others.



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