C is a general-purpose, procedural programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. It is one of the most influential programming languages and serves as the foundation for many modern languages like C++, Java, and Python.C is a procedural, compiled, and statically typed programming language. It provides low-level access to memory, making it ideal for system-level programming like operating systems, embedded systems, and device drivers.