C – ISO/IEC 9899

C is a programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie in the early 1970s at Bell Labs. It was designed to be a small, efficient language that could be used for systems programming. C is one of the most widely used programming languages, with compilers available for almost every major operating system. C is a high-level language, meaning that it abstracts away many of the low-level details of a computer. This makes it easier to write programs, but it also makes them less efficient. C is a compiled language, meaning that programs written in C must be converted into machine code before they can be run. C is a structured language, meaning that programs are divided into functions. Functions can be called from other functions, making it easy to modularize code. C is also a portable language, meaning that programs can be easily moved from one platform to another. C is a powerful language, but it is also easy to misuse. C programs can be difficult to read and understand, and they can be prone to errors. Nonetheless, C remains a popular language, due in part to its flexibility and the fact that it can be used to write programs in a wide variety of domains.