C

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

What is C?

C is a compiled language that many other languages are built on. It gives full memory control, and this gives the programmer a lot of freedom. C is not an object-oriented language.

Reasons to use C

• Memory management
• Low level
• When creating another language
• When creating a program
• It's one of the fastest languages, if not THE fastest
• When creating your own operating system

Reasons not to use C

• When you want to quickly develop something
• When you don't want to manage memory

Things made with C

Operating Systems

• Windows OS
• Mac OS
• Linux

Languages

• Python (See Python base language information)
• Java (See article on Java compiler and JVM)

Resources

• Wiki