C was born at AT&T Bell Labs in 1972
- This language was created so that computer programmers did not have to
write in machine or assembly language
- C is a very powerful language because it allows the programmer to work
at both the high level and work with bits at the low level
C is a procedural style language
- A procedural language relies on functions to carry out each task that a
program needs to perform
- For example, one function may perform the task of reading a disk file
into memory while another function may get input from the keyboard
