C programming language is a general-purpose, procedural language that provides low-level access to system memory. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs to construct utilities running on Unix). C is strongly associated with Unix, as it was developed to write the Unix operating system. It is a fundamental language in the field of computer science and is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. C is an imperative procedural language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type).
Some key features of C programming language include:
- It is a mid-level language that supports the features of both a low-level and a high-level language.
- It offers numerous built-in library functions that expedite the development process.
- C supports the dynamic memory allocation feature, which can be used to free the allocated memory at any time by calling the free() function.
C programming language is used in various applications such as operating systems, device drivers, protocol stacks, networking, database systems, gaming, and artificial intelligence.
