Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition

27. The C Programming Language

“C is a strongly typed,weakly checked,programming language.”

—Dennis Ritchie

This chapter is a brief overview of the C programming language and its standard library from the point of view of someone who knows C++. It lists the C++ features missing from C and gives examples of how a C programmer can cope without those. C/C++ incompatibilities are presented, and C/C++ interoperability is discussed. Examples of I/O, list manipulation, memory management, and string manipulation are included as illustration.

27.1 C and C++: siblings

27.1.1 C/C++ compatibility

27.1.2 C++ features missing from C

27.1.3 The C standard library

27.2 Functions

27.2.1 No function name overloading

27.2.2 Function argument type checking

27.2.3 ...