Facts about C Language Programming

20 Interesting Facts about C Language Programming You must Know

• ANSI C, ISO C and Standard C refer to the successive standards for the Cprogramming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

• Operating systems are software system that make it more convenient to use computers and to get the best performance from computers.

• Servers store programs and data that may be shared by client computers distributed thorough out the network hence the term client server computing.

• The Arithmetic and logic unit ( ALU) performs calculations and make decisions.

• English like abbreviations form the basis of assemble languages. 

• The three primary constants and variable types in C are integer, float and character.

• Input/output in C can be achieved using scanf() and print() functions.

• Do not use a keyword as a variable name

• The #include directive gives a program access to a library. Th is directive causes the predecessor to insert definitions from a standard from a standard header file into a program before compilation.

• A variable name can be of maximum 31 characters.

• Operator having equal precedence are evaluated using associativity. 

• Multi programming operating system enable the simultaneous operations of the may  job on the computers.

• Compilers translates the high level language programs into machine language. 

• High level languages contain English words and conventional mathematical notations.

• C is known as the development language of the UNIX operating system.