C programming is the general-purpose structured versatile language that can be used to create any kind of applications like operating systems and application software package. C programming language was developed from AlGOL, BCPL and B by Dennis Ritchie at At and T Bell Lab, USA in 1972.
It can run in both linux as well as unix operating systems.The c program is easy and simple to understand and program. The source code of c program is portable across different computing environment. C programming code is flexible because its source code can be easily extended.