Foundational

C

Est. 1972

CreatorDennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)

ParadigmProcedural • Imperative

Websiteen.cppreference.com/w/c

The mother of modern programming languages. C provides low-level access to memory and is the foundation for operating systems, compilers, and countless other languages.

Hello World

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  printf("Hello, World!\n");
  return 0;
}