guages are similarly like human languages unlike low-level machine language. High-level languages have some advantages, also C has. They are readability, maintainability and portability. High-level programming languages are easy to read (they are like human languages), they are easy to maintain and they can be used on different computer platforms. The C language’s closeness to human languages (especially English) provides readability and maintainability. Each high-level language needs a compiler to translate high-level language into a machine language that a computer can understand and execute. Linux has the free C compilers so you can develop C programs on Linux platform. C allows you to get control of computer hardware and peripherals. It is the reason that Linux and Linux software developed by C language. Many other high-level programming languages developed based on C.C++ language are an expanded version of C that makes object-oriented programming easier. Also learning Java is much easier if you already know C. C++ compilers are available on Linux,too. (Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours) Linux is an Unix-like operating system. The companies for network systems developed Unix. Unix is very expensive. Only some of the big companies can afford it. So Linux was developed for a free alternative to Unix. Unix is designed for networks and it has powerful network options, so Linux has powerful network options. It has NFS (Network File Service) and NIS (Network Information Service) support. NIS and NFS provides a shared user account. You save the user accounts in the server and after that they are reachable from the clients. This is the basic of a network. If a user can’t login on a client, the system wouldn’t call a network. By Nis and Nfs, system administration becomes available. There are also LAN (Local Area Network) and WAN (Wide Area Network) support. You can connect your local network to the Internet. It is...
