C is a middle-level language, developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. I was developed to redesign UNIX operating system. It is used to design system software as well as general purpose programs.
Features
- It is known as the mid-level language because it developed system software as well as general purpose programs.
- It is portable (machine independent).
- Small and compact program. So it requires less memory.
- Fast execution of the program.
- Modular programming
- Top-down programming approach
- Structural programming
- It has small keywords just 32
- Robust and reliable
- Format free language