Why use C? The C language was development at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. One of the first platforms for implementation was the PDP-11 running under a UNIX environment.
Since its introduction, it has evolved and been standardized throughout the computing industry as an establisheddevelopment language. The PC has become a cost effective development platform using C++ or other favored versions of the ANSI standard.