C is a high level, structured, general-purpose, imperative procedural computer programming langauge.It is closest programming language to machine language. Most of the popular operating system and embeded sytem is made using this language.
It uses compiler (Popular Compiler : GNU C Compiler) to turn prorgamming language to binary code. it was designed to provide low-level access to memory and portability. The C executable varies between operating system which is why its platform dependent. It contains no garbage collector so it needs to be managed on its own.
C language uses library which contains useful function in a archive file with a header file. Most commonly used header file is “stdio.h” which contains basic input , output, math, characters , memory allocation.
C language is a case-sensitive language, it uses semi-colon to terminate a statement and uses curly brackets for grouping blocks of statements. The code starts with library and the main function starts the work with a return value of zero (return 0 = successfully ran). There is no string type but uses char which is used as an integer.
Other language was directly like C#, C++, Java, PHP , Python, Ruby was made on it.They uses the same syntex just like C and have borrowed many of their control stucture which is why it is the mother of all programming language.
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