Here are some of the reasons why C is popular today.
- The C programming language is simple to understand. Technically, C is a mid-level language which means that it is in close association with both low-level and high-level languages. The high-level language characteristic makes it easily relatable to the human language with easy English words and phrases.
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- The most important feature of C is the implementation of various data types, loops, arrays, functions, structures, unions, macros, user-defined operations, linked lists, stacks and queues, binary trees, hash tables, and pointers.
- C is a structured (modular) programming language that allows the programmer to break his codes into smaller fragments to improve the readability of the code and hence make the program less redundant and simple.
- The portability feature of C also plays an important role in making it an evergreen language. Who wants to study a language where you cannot use the same piece of code on different platforms? C comes with this unique feature that makes our work much easier. Suppose you are a Windows user but for some apparent reasons you want to switch to Linux. Now, the programs that you have written and executed on let’s say, CodeBlocks will work and give the same output when copied and pasted in a terminal while using LINUX.
- The C standard library provides you a remarkable range of inbuilt functions that eases out things for the programmer.
- The C programming language helps you to manage memory efficiently as it supports the feature of dynamic memory allocation and bit field
