Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 354. Not illustrated. Chapters: C, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, International Obfuscated C Code Contest, Ansi C, Header File, C Standard Library, Union, C Syntax, Comparison of Pascal and C, C Preprocessor, Operators in C and C++, Malloc, C Variable Types and Declarations, Standard Streams, Compatibility of C and C++, Atan2, Sizeof, Setcontext, C99, Duff's Device, the C Programming Language, Volatile Variable, Struct, Precompiled Header, Wide Character, Typedef, List of C Functions, Intel Memory Model, C String, Impulse C, Sequence Point, Digraphs and Trigraphs, Undefined Behavior, Misra C, Strlcpy, Interactive C, Offsetof, Include Guard, Ldexp, Pragma Once, the Lexer Hack, Restrict, Function Prototype, Ansi/iso C Specification Language, Variadic Macro, Blocks, Strtod, Underhanded C Contest, Signature, Comma Operator, F2c, Long Double, Strtol, Prefix Header, Header-Only, C Traps and Pitfalls, Cflags, C1x, Atoi, Clone, Swab, Pro*c, Painted Blue, Bcx, C Primer Plus, Ldap Application Program Interface, Ltoa, Sigprocmask. Excerpt: C (pronounced ) is a general-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing portable application software. C is one of the most popular programming languages and there are very few computer architectures for which a C compiler does not exist. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C. C is an imperative (procedural) systems implementation language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instruction...