D'où vient return 0 retour dans la programmation en c

pourquoi avons-nous besoin de retourner la valeur 0 dans c?

The return value is the exit code of your program, the shell (or any other 
application that ran it) can read and use it.
The 0 exit code is a widely accepted convention for 'OK the program execution 
was successfull'. And for non-zero numbers, it conventionally means the 
program didn't execute successfully or there is an error.