TOP 10 GREATEST PROGRAMMERS IN THE WORLD OF ALL TIME

• Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Mac Alistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who “helped shape the digital era”. He created the C programming language and with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix
operating system.

Dennis Ritchie

• Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.

Bjarne Stroustrup

BASIC 'C' programming Example

• To display "Hello World"

#include <stdio.h>

#include <conio.h>

int main( )

{

  printf ("Hello world \n");

  return ( 0 ) ;

}

• To Add two numbers

Basics for C programming

-C is a general-purpose high level language.
- The Unix operating system and virtually all Unix applications are written in the C language.

- Advantages: 

1. Easy to learn
2. Structured language
3. It produces efficient programs.
4. It can be compiled on a variety of computers.

Top 10 programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum

The below ranking is done by the IEEE spectrum in 2015.