Significant Points About C

    Small number of keywords

    Widely available, particularly on personal computers and workstations

    Can be used very portably

         Standard library

         Preprocessor may be used to isolate machine dependent code

         Unlike Pascal, which has many dialects

    Native language of UNIX (tm) and Windows NT

    Terse

         Powerful set of operators

         Statements can be very powerful

         Some are bit level operators

         Designed to be implemented efficiently on many machines

    Modular -- functions

         Parameters are typically passed `by value’

         No nested functions

    Syntax is complicated

   Semantics of certain features are complex and error-prone