c

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introduction

history

c was originally made to help re-build unix for a different computer. This was when portability was noted as a great aspect of the programming language. unix_philosophy

You have to be small and efficient when making an operating system, and therefore C is considered the perfect language for that job.

C was based on Algol.

underlying philosophy features

low-level

Close to assembly language in terms of size and speed. Access to bytes and addresses.

permissive

It allows you to do more than what other programming languages will allow, such as a[i++]+=5. You can do things like for(;;) to do an infinite while loop.

strengths

• efficient
• portable
• power :~ large data types and operators allowing for lots of ability for a few lines of code
• flexible :~ allows exotic operations and has few restrictions, is able to be used in many situations
• standard library (for lots of already written code)
• integration with *nix

weaknesses

• can be error prone
• can be difficult to understand
• can be difficult to change :~ large programs that are poorly designed make it hard to change

effective_use_of_c

contents

TODO make automatically with grep c___20250304_1142_20.pd

statement

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• computer

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• array
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