C is a general-purpose computer programming language that was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie). It is a procedural language that provides low-level access to system memory and is machine-independent. C is strongly associated with UNIX, as it was developed to write the UNIX operating system. It is a structured programming language that supports structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system). Cs features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs, and it was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal runtime support).
Some key features of C include:
- Mid-level programming language: Its a mid-level language that supports the features of both a low-level and a high-level language.
- Rich library: It offers numerous built-in library functions that expedite the development process.
- Dynamic memory allocation: C supports the dynamic memory allocation feature, which can be used to free the allocated memory at any time by calling the free() function.
- General-purpose: C is a general-purpose programming language that is extremely popular, simple, and flexible to use.
- Structured programming: C is a structured programming language in which a program is divided into various modules. Each module can be written separately and together it forms a single C program.
C is still widely used and influential today, particularly in operating systems, device drivers, and protocol stacks). Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming). Many later languages have borrowed directly or indirectly from C, including C++, C#, Unixs C shell, D, Go, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Limbo, and more).
