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

Early developments
The origin of C is closely tied to the development of the Unix operating system, originally implemented in assembly language on a PDP-7 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, incorporating several ideas from … 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 programming textbooks. The program prints "hello, world" to the standard output, which is usually a terminal or screen … See more

One of the most important functions of a programming language is to provide facilities for managing memory and the objects that are stored in memory. C provides three … See more