0 Why is C so popular?

                                              Why is C so popular?                                                       

Possibly why C seems so popular is because it is reliable, simple and easy to use. But as many new languages emerge and vanish day in and day out, there is something special which makes C so stable in the market. There are some of following reasons for this-

First-   In order to learn advance concepts like classes, objects, polymorphism, inheritance ,templates, exception handling, references etc. of C++ ,Java , C# or any other language, one has to learn basic concepts of C before proceeding to those high level languages. After learning the basic concepts of C , learner will be able to grasp those advanced features easily.

Second- Major parts of popular operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux are still written in C. This is because even today when it comes to performance ( speed of execution) nothing beats C.

 

 Third-  C allows for easy implementation, it comes with a genuinely useful standard library that can itself be implemented in C, and it is both efficient and portable. C has always appealed to systems programmers who like the terse, concise manner in which powerful expressions can be coded.

Fourth- Mobile devices like cellular phones and palmtops , microwave ovens ,washing machines and digital cameras getting smarter by the day. This smartness comes from a microprocesssor , an operaitng system and a program embedded in these devices. These programs not only have to run fast but also have to work in limited amount of memory.With these constraints on time and space, C is the language of choice while building such operating  systems and programs.  

Fifth-All the games are made from C. This is because the essence of all these games is speed.This is the area where C dominates over other languages.Many popular gaming frameworks have been built using C language.

Sixth- Through C programming elements , programmer can interact with the hardware whenever needed.      

Seventh- C allows programmers to (while sacrificing portability) have direct access to many machine-level features that would otherwise require the use of Assembly Language.

Eight- Device driver programs are written in C. So if one want to extend the operating system to work with new devices one needs to write device driver programs.