
Introduction to C
C is a runtime environment that exists on nearly every platform. For historical reasons, almost every
system in existence can run compiled C programs. C is a platform-independent compiled language,
but it has a large library of hardware-specific, low-level system calls available to help us access the
hardware. On its own, C is a very small language; it doesn’t even know how to display text to the
screen! But every C installation comes with the C standard libraries, which provide the programmer
with a host of handy functions.
C is a compiled language.This means that we write the program in the English-like language that
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