C Basic

What is C?

• C is a programming language developed at AT & T's Bell Laboratories of USA in 1972.

• It was designed and written by a man named Dennis Ritchie.

• C is a Middle Level language.

• C is thought of as a Middle-Level Language because it combines the best elements of High-Level Languages with the control and flexibility of Assembly Language (Low Level language).

High Level - Translator Required. Example:

Ada

Modula-2

pascal

COBOL

FORTRAN

BASIC

Middle Level - Combination of High Level and Low Level Language. Example:

Macro-assembler

Low Level - Translator not Required. Example:

Assembler