C

C is a programming language designed for application and systems programming. It was created by the late master himself, Dennis Ritchie, so that he could create Unix. C is standardized by ISO and is currently at the C11 standard.

Qualities

C is a very simple language, whose parts can combine to form very complex code structures.

Language

C is an imperative, procedural, structured language. This means:

• Code is a sequence of statements that change program state
• Statements may be organized in control structures like if, while, for
• Code may be organized as functions, which may be called from elsewhere

Type system

C is statically but weakly typed. This means:

• Types must be declared
• Values can be loosely converted between types regardless of compatibility

Examples

The examples provided here can be compiled and run using a C compiler such as gcc or clang.

Hello World!

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    puts("hello, world\n");
}