In this chapter we are going to start exploring another language called C. It is a low-level language with quite minimal abstractions over assembly. At the same time it is expressive enough so we could illustrate some very general concepts and ideas applicable to all programming languages (such as type system or polymorphism).
C provides almost no abstraction over memory, so the memory management task is the programmer’s responsibility. Unlike in higher-level languages, such as C# or Java, the programmer must allocate and free the reserved memory himself, instead of relying on an automated system of garbage collection. ...
