Chapter 13. PROGRAMMING WITH C
C is one of those programming languages that most programmers never predicted would take off. Designed as a highly efficient, somewhat cryptic language used to write in the Unix operating system, C is a language designed by system programmers. The application programming community never intended to use C seriously.
Today, virtually every program you see on the store shelves is written in either C or, more likely, a language based on C. A C-based compiler is on a high percentage of programmers'computers. C's importance to modern computer languages cannot be stressed enough.
The highlights of this chapter include the following:
C is an efficient language.
C is a small language with very few commands.
C's operators ...
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