INTRODUCTION - (page 1)
Plz refer book or see the short description below
C is a general-purpose language which has been closely associated with the UNIX operating system for which it was developed - since the system and most of the programs that run it are written in C.
Many of the important ideas of C stem from the language BCPL, developed by Martin Richards. The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language B, which was written by Ken
Thompson in 1970 at Bell Labs, for the first UNIX system on a DEC PDP-7. BCPL and B are "type less" languages whereas C provides a variety of data types.
In 1972 Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs writes C and in 1978 the publication of The C Programming
Language by Kernighan & Ritchie caused a revolution in the computing world.
In 1983, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established a committee to provide a modern, comprehensive definition of C. The resulting definition, the ANSI standard, or "ANSI C", was completed late 1988.

Error Handling (Exception Handling) in C - (page 2)
In this Project file we are going to look at error handling. Although C programming does not provide direct support for error handling (also called exception handling), there are ways to do error handling. Of course the programmer needs to prevent errors during coding and should always test the return values of functions called by the program. A lot of C function calls return a -1 or NULL in case of an error, so quick test on these return values are easily done with for instance an ‘if statement’.
So the one thing you need to remember is that you (the programmer) are responsible for error handling. You’re the person that needs to make sure that a program will gracefully terminate and not just CRASH unexpectedly! It is you that need to take appropriate action depending on the return values of function calls.