C is a relatively minimalist computer programming language originally developed to write the UNIX operating system in the 1970s. It inspired a whole family of programming languages: Java, C++, C#, Objective-C, Perl, and others! Once you pick up C, you can learn any other mentioned language very quickly.
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Fast Facts
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Family Elder
C was developed by AT&T in 1978. It inspired a whole slew of other programming languages. The most closely related one is C++.
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Minimalism
C in itself is a very minimalist language - it can't do much besides declare functions, variables, pointers, return values, and perform operations. It's the C library that gives the language its power.
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Low-level
C is a very low-level language (this is not a derogatory term - it simply means that it works very closely with the system hardware), which includes being able to more easily handle memory management and systems programming without having to get as low as an assembly language.
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Low-level
C is a very low-level language (this is not a derogatory term - it simply means that it works very closely with the system hardware), which includes being able to more easily handle memory management and systems programming without having to get as low as an assembly language.
