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Simple C Program

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Simple C Program

In which we describe how generate a c program

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Simple C Program #include int main() { /* my first program in C */ printf("Hello, World! \n"); return 0; } 1. The first line of the program #include is a preprocessor command, which tells a C compiler to include stdio.h file before going to actual compilation. 2. The next line int main() is the main function where the program execution begins. 3. The next line /*...*/ will be ignored by the compiler and it has been put to add additional comments in the program. So such lines are called comments in the program. 3, PROGRAM STRUCTURE C Programming 7 4. The next line printf(...) is another function available in C which causes the message "Hello, World!" to be displayed on the screen. 5. The next line return 0; terminates the main() function and returns the value 0 #include include information about standard library main() define a function called main that received no argument values { statements of main are enclosed in braces printf("hello, world\n"); main calls library function printf to print this sequence of characters \n represents the newline character Cis a general-purpose programming language. C was developed by Dennis Ritchie at “AT & T’s Bell Laboratory” and was originally implemented in 1972. The C language was evolved from B. Which was developed by Ken Thomson but it was interpreter based but it was very slow so Dennis Ritchie modified the "B" Language and named it as "C he is also called as father of C Programming language Cinitially became widely known as the development language of the UNIX operating system. Many of today’s leading operating systems are written in C and/or C++. It’s possible to write C programs that are portable to most computers. Cis used for writing programs in many different domains, such as operating systems, numerical computing, graphical applications, etc. Cis widely used to develop systems that demand performance, such as operating systems, embedded system

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