=    C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.
=    C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early 1970s.
=    The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
=    The UNIX OS was totally written in C.
=    Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.
=    Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.
=    Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.