C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly … See more

C has a formal grammar specified by the C standard. Line endings are generally not significant in C; however, line boundaries do have significance during the preprocessing … See more

The type system in C is static and weakly typed, which makes it similar to the type system of ALGOL descendants such as Pascal. There are built-in types for integers of various … See more

C is an imperative, procedural language in the ALGOL tradition. It has a static type system. In C, all executable code is contained within subroutines (also called "functions", though not in the sense of functional programming). Function parameters See more

Early developments
The origin of C is closely tied to the development of the Unix operating system, originally implemented in assembly language See more

The "hello, world" example, which appeared in the first edition of K&R, has become the model for an introductory program in most … See more

One of the most important functions of a programming language is to provide facilities for managing memory and the objects that are … See more