Q: What is 'C' language

'C' language is widely used in computer technology. C language is inspiration for development of other languages .

History:

• Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT & T lab in 1972 . 
• American National Standard Institute approved a version of ‘C’ in 1989 ANSI-C

Features:

• ‘C’ is compiler based language.

• ‘C’ is a case sensitive language because its lower and upper case letters are different .

• It ignores white space character.

     Ex- Space, Tab, Carriage return, from feed, Newline.

Character Set:

character set of a language refers to the group of keys that are used to create words of expression of that language. Character of 'C' language is classified into 4 categories.

• Alphabet :-  26 Upper case and 26 Lower case alphabet   i.e.  A-Z and a-z

• Digits:-         0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

• Special characters:- ! @ # $ % ^ & * () {} [] . ,  ; ;  “  ‘  > < / ?

• White spaces:- Space, Tab, Carriage return, from feed, Newline .

     note-The compiler ignore white spaces characters .