History of c language

C is a high-level language that was originally developed by Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. C was originally first implemented on the DEC PDP-11 computer in 1972. In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie produced the first publicly available description of C, now known as the K&R standard. The UNIX operating system, the C compiler, and essentially all UNIX application programs have been written in C. C has now become a widely used professional language for various reasons:
 1.Easy to learn
2. Structured language
3.It produces efficient programs
4. It can handle low-level activities
5. It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms Facts about C
6. C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.
 7. C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early 1970s.
8.The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
                                                                   The UNIX OS was totally written in C. Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language. Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.

Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.