1 BASICS OF C LANGUAGE Introduction The C language was developed in early 1970s at AT&T labs by Brian Kernighan and Denn
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1 BASICS OF C LANGUAGE Introduction The C language was developed in early 1970s at AT&T labs by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. The language was originally developed to write the UNIX operating system. Since that time, literally thousands of applications have been written in C C is a small language with relatively few commands. In order to make programming in C easier, a number of libraries have been written. These libraries allow you to use higher level commands or functions which make it easier to write a program.
Character Set of C C programs are written using a combination of alphanumeric characters, special symbols and white space characters. The following characters are used in C language. Alphabets Numbers Special Symbols White Space
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