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====== C ======

C is a programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in
the early 1970s. It is a systems programming language, widely used
in the implementation of operating systems and operating system
utilities, as well as many other programs. It is one of the most
influential programming languages to date.

C is considered the 'language of UNIX'; however, the UNIX operating
system in fact predates C, but was re-implemented in C shortly after the
language's creation.

C is available on systems including the PDP 11/70.

===== Invocation =====

As C is a compiled language, your program must be compiled and possibly
linked before it can be executed.

==== On UNIX ====

	$ cc program.c -o program
	$ ./program

===== Example =====

==== Hello World ====

From Kernighan and Ritchie (1988).

	#include <stdio.h>
        
	main() {
		printf("hello, world\n");
	}


==== Further reading ====

Kernighan, B. W. & Ritchie, D. M. (1988). //The C programming language//
(2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.