Master Wang Daocheng’s Evening Self-Study Training on C Language

C language is one of the earliest programming languages, developed at Bell Labs in 1972. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie designed the C language, inheriting many ideas from the B language and adding the concept of data types and other features. Although the C language was developed alongside the UNIX operating system, it is not limited to UNIX.

C is a general-purpose (widely available) programming language.

The programming language and compiler are integrated; the C compiler includes the famous GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) among others.

It is widely used in low-level development. The C language can compile and handle low-level memory in a straightforward manner. C is a highly efficient programming language that generates minimal machine code and can run without any runtime environment support. Despite providing many low-level processing capabilities, the C language maintains cross-platform characteristics, allowing a C program written to a standard specification to be compiled on many computing platforms, including embedded processors and supercomputers.

The latest C language standard is C2314.

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