As about ten years ago, C was the most popular programming language being used. Programmers wrote C code for PCs, mainframes, and supercomputers. C was standardized so that the same program would run on every kind of computer using every kind of operating system available.
Today, the use of C has dramatically decreased. Rarely will a project be written in C. Programmers are using languages such as C++ and Java to create applications that run on standalone, networked, and Internet-based machines. Yet, when learning to program, C is considered to be the one language it is imperative a programmer master before moving on to the other languages in use today...
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