C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs.
It was developed to overcome the problems of languages such as B, BPCL.
It was developed to write the Unix operating system. The Unix OS was written entirely in C.
The language was formalized in 1988 by ANSI.
C is the most widely used and popular system programming language.
Microsoft's Windows kernel is mostly written in C language.
Linux OS is also written in C language, with some parts in Assembly.
Mac computers are also powered by C.
The world's most popular databases, including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server are coded in C and C++.