Fundamentals

A C program consists of individual building blocks called functions , which can invoke one another. Each function performs a certain task. Ready-made functions are available in the standard library; other functions are written by the programmer as necessary. A special function name is main( ): this designates the first function invoked when a program starts. All other functions are subroutines.

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