Facts about C

• C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX. 
•  C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early 1970s. 
•  The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI). 
•  The UNIX OS was totally written in C. 
•  Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language. 
•  Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.