Currently, there are a large, if not huge, number of high-level languages; however, when it comes to scientific and engineering computing, the choice narrows sharply, literally to three (and in fact, to two) languages: C/C++ and good old Fortran.
The C language was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie of AT&T Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs) to write the Unix operating system. The ...
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