Facts about C

1. C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.

2. C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early 1970s.

3. The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).

4. The UNIX OS was totally written in C.

5. Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.

6. Most of the state-of-the-art sotware have been implemented using C.

7. Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.