History of c language: 

c language is developed in 1970's in bell laboratory  by Dennis Ritchie . ken Thomson is a another scientist who developed  B language in 1969 for developing the unix operating system. c language is developed by enhancing the B language.

why c language is so important: 

1)oracle in written in c language.

2)core libraries of android are written in c language.

3)almost every device drivers are written in c language.

4)unix operating system is developed in c language.

5)now a days c is not outdated language ,it is most popular language.

6) c language is most important for programming skill development.

characteristics of  c language:

1)c is middle level language.

2)because it is simple as high level language and powerful as low level language.

3)so we can write system program and application program both in c language.

4)c is general purpose language.

5)c is small language consisting only 32 words known as keyword.