C language - The God's Language

If you are from computer science field then you must have heard about "C language" it is a phenomenon in computer science, it is called the god's language. C is a general purpose, imperative Programming language which uses "Structured Programming Paradigm". It is called middle level language because it falls between high level and low level languages it gives you high level functionalities like struct, recursion and file handling along with low level functionalities like memory management functions(malloc, realloc, calloc) and pointers. The C language is still being used widely approx. 40 years after being invented(1978) in bell laboratories. This language was revolutionary at that time and most of its concepts are still being used in many modern high level languages. Even most of the linux kernels are  written in C language. This language is being used in making computer applications, device drivers, firmwares, operating systems (like linux, unix, windows), browsers, compilers for other languages, and many more other software utilities and applications. This language was big leap for mankind. It is fast and effective language. And it is compiler based language it means that the program must have compiled before running.

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