c programming

WEll, i think A,B is already defined before, thats why its called C again. And its really interesting language to build application.

The 'C' language was called 'C' because its features were derived from another programming language called 'B'. It's got only to do with the alphabetical order as the makers both Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan initally called it "K&R C" after the first letter of their names. Later on it became simply 'C'.

Mmm.....I think B means Basics in computer and A is Algol already there or can say Algorithm or something, so C for programming language. Easy to say and remember for all right? ..So programming languages(structured programming) starts with C propbably...thatswhat I think. :)

What is C? C is a computer programming language. That means that you can use C to create lists of instructions for a computer to follow. C is one of thousands of programming languages currently in use. C has been around for several decades and has won widespread acceptance because it gives programmers maximum control and efficiency. C is an easy language to learn. It is a bit more cryptic in its style than some other languages, but you get beyond that fairly quickly. C is what is called a compiled language. This means that once you write your C program, you must run it through a C compiler to turn your program into an executable that the computer can run (execute). The C program is the human-readable form, while the executable that comes out of the compiler is the machine-readable and executable form. What this means is that to write and run a C program, you must have access to a C compiler. If you are using a UNIX machine (for example, if you are writing CGI scripts in C on your host's UNIX computer, or if you are a student working on a lab's UNIX machine), the C compiler is available for free. It is called either "cc" or "gcc" and is available on the command line. If you are a student, then the school will likely provide you with a compiler -- find out what the school is using and learn about it. If you are working at home on a Windows machine, you are going to need to download a free C compiler or purchase a commercial compiler. A widely used commercial compiler is Microsoft's Visual C++ environment (it compiles both C and C++ programs). Unfortunately, this program costs several hundred dollars. If you do not have hundreds of dollars to spend on a commercial compiler, then you can use one of the free compilers available on the Web. See http://delorie.com/djgpp/ as a starting point in your search. We will start at the beginning with an extremely simple C program and build up from there. I will assume that you are using the UNIX command line and gcc as your environment for these examples; if you are not, all of the code will still work fine -- you will simply need to understand and use whatever compiler you have available.

I don't remember much of the history, but from what I can gather, in 1972, the Bell Labs developed a new language and they named it B after themselves. Later this project was handed over to Dennis Ritchie, who altered the language intending to improve it and named the new language as C, as C came after B in the alphabets just as C followed B in the languages history. This is how it came to be called C... C continued till 1985 with minor modifications done now and then, till 'C with Classes' later called C++ came out... This history follows even to the development of java in the 1990s. Java also borrowed heavily from C and C++...