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What makes C a widely used programming language?
What makes C a widely used programming language? (Computer science one · Getting Started: Hello World) — "The C programming language is a relatively old langua…
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- The C programming language
- Relatively old but still widely used
- Highly universal across computing systems
- Nearly every system, platform, and operating system has a C compiler
- The compiler produces machine code for the target system
- Extensive use in systems programming
- Operating system kernels
- Embedded systems
- Microcontrollers
- Supercomputers
- Generally an imperative language
- Computation is expressed through executable statements and functions
- Statements and functions change the program's state
- Program state includes variable values
