C is a general purpose computer programming language. It was originally created by Dennis M. Ritchie (circa 1971) for the specific purpose of rewriting much of the Unix operating system. This now famous operating system was at that time in its infancy: it had recently been written for a discarded DEC PDP - 7 computer by Ken Thompson, an electrical engineer and a colleague of Ritchie's at Bell Labs. Thompson had written the first UNIX in a language he chose to call B. The intention of these programmers was to port UNIX on to other, architecturally...
