C programming introduction
- 2. C language is the most popular programming language and is widely used for development purposes in the world. This language was mainly developed to write an operating system which is known as UNIX. This operating system is completely written in the C language. The Linux operating system, Relation Database Management System, and MySQL have been written in the C programming language. The programs in C language can be written in two or more files with a .c extension. If any user writes the program in C language, then the user needs to compile the program to execute it. The C compiler converts the code of the particular program into the machine understandable language. This converted language is known as machine language or binary language. So, the user must make sure that the C compiler is available in the computer system before proceeding with the C programming language.
- 4. The C language comes with all the flavors of UNIX and LINUX operating system. If any user wants to know the system’s compiler, then the user can ask the system administrator or take help from someone to categorize the available C compiler at the current system. The code produces by the C language executes faster than the code written in assembly language. Why C is Mother Language? C is known as the mother language of all programming languages, widely used in the entire world. Various programming languages are derived from the concept of C programming by direct or indirect way. The C language is the mother language because mostly compiler and JVMs are written in this language. It introduces the user to several kinds of new core concepts such as arrays, functions, file handling etc. We cannot interact directly with the hardware machine of the computer system. If the user wants to interact with the hardware directly, then the user needs a system application.
- 5. The system software is developed by using C language, and this software can directly interact with the hardware of any device like drivers and kernels. The compilers in C language are always available to the majority of computer architectures and operating systems as per the user’s requirement. It is the structured language that breaks the code or program into small portions and solves those parts individually. The structured way of programming is the subset of procedural programming language and is also known as modular programming. We can use the top-down model with the help of structure programming only. Middle-Level Programming language The C programming language is the middle-level language because it binds the gap between Machine level language and high-level language. We can use C language for both system programming and application programming.