Notes On ...

C

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("This is C");
}

C is a staticly-typed, procedural programming language considered to be the mother of all programming languages. Its use can be seen in:

The language was created in 1972 and used to develop the UNIX 🌐 operating system.

C’s syntax “inspired” the syntax of countless other programming languages that came after like:

It is a compiled language, as opposed to an interpreted language.

Compiles directly into machine code
Platform dependant
- Executables run on specific operating system, and not any others

High-Level as in “designed to be readable by humans” but,

with Low-Level Control over memory and hardware.

No “garbage collector”
- something to free up memory you aren’t using
- meaning you must manage memory manually, or your program will “leak” memory