C is a general purpose programming language created by “Dennis Ritchie” at the Bell laboratories in 1972.
It is extremely popular, simple, and flexible to use. It is a structured programming language that is machine-independent and extensively used to write various applications, Operating Systems like Windows, and many other complex programs like Oracle database, Git, Python interpreter, and more.
It is a very popular language,despite being old.C is strongly associated with UNIX, as it was developed to write the UNIX operating system.
Why Learn C?
C helps you to understand the internal architecture of a coumputer,how computer stores and retrives information.
After learning C,it will be much easier to learn other programming language like C++,Java,Python etc.
Opportunity to work on open source projects.Some of the largest open-source projects such as Linux kernal, Python interpreter , SQLite database, etc. are written in C programming language.