C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created by Dennis Ritchie in the 1970s and remains widely used and influential today. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the target CPU. It has found lasting use in operating system code (particularly kernels), device drivers, and protocol stacks, though its application in software has been decreasing. The C language is commonly employed across computer architectures, from the largest supercomputers to the smallest microcontrollers and embedded systems. C is an imperative procedural language that supports structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. It was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal runtime support. Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was intended to encourage cross-platform programming. Standard-compliant C programs written for portability can be compiled for a wide range of computer platforms and operating systems with little to no modification of their source code.

C (programming language) is a general-purpose programming language designed to provide low-level memory access and efficient mapping to machine instructions while supporting cross-platform programming.