Overview of C - Notes Importance of C Programming: C is a robust language and has a rich set of built in functions, data types and operators which can be used to write any complex programs. Program written in C are efficient and fast due to availability of several data types and operators. C has the capability of an assembly language with the feature of high level language, so it is well suited for writing in both system software and application software. C is highly portable language, code written in one machine can be moved to other which is very important and powerful feature. C also supports low level features like bit level programming. C has high level constructs and it is more user friendly as its syntaxes approaches to English like language. History of C Language: In 1972, Dennis Ritchie developed a programming language at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in USA, called C Language. It was developed to be used in UNIX operating system. Dennis Ritchie