C is a powerful general-purpose programming language. It can be used for a wide range of applications from Operating systems like Windows and iOS to software that is used to create 3D movies.

C is a procedural language. This means instructions in the C program are executed step by step.

If you are interested to know how procedural language is different from other forms of programming language like object-oriented, visit differences between procedural and object-oriented languages.

C programming allows programmers to directly manipulate computer hardware. This is one of the reasons why C programming is faster in processing than other new languages like Java, Python, etc.

Write once, compile everywhere. This means we can write a standard C program in one system (e.g. Windows) and compile it in another system (e.g. Mac OS) without any change.

C provides various standard libraries. Standard libraries are a section of C code that helps to perform different tasks.

For example, suppose you need to display something on the screen, you can include stdio.h library that allows you to use printf() function.

C is a statically types language. This means the type of a variable is checked during the compile time but not in the run-time. Statically typed languages are faster than dynamically typed language in general.

Despite being old, C is used in a variety of applications. For example,