Features of C Language

Features or Advantage of C:-

• C is a structured programming language. The objective of a structured programming is to provide methodology in which, the user may develop programs quickly with less mistakes.

• Further, it increases the readability of the program and finally the flexibility of the program is improved to the maximum, which helps the programmer to modify the program without affecting the other portion of the program.

• It is a disciplined approach towards the programming that promotes clear, efficient and error-free programming.

• The structures such as sequence, condition and loop structure are incorporated in the C programming language.

• These structures help the programmer to avoid the undesirable statement called 'goto' statement. The 'goto' statement is an unconditional statement which leads to unstructured programming.

• C is a case-sensitive language i.e C recognizes uppercase and lowercase characters separately. For example, declaring the variable by the name 'add'  is different from 'ADD' or 'Add'. All the three variables are different and unique. Case-sensitiveness leads to a rich character set.

• Portability

• Implemented on many diverse systems
• Implemented on wide variety of hardware
• Defined libraries are themselves portable
• Applications are portable
• Programs are portable

• Powerful
• Completeness – business to scientific applications
• Flexibility – preprocessor, conditional compilation, header files

• C can reference a memory location by means of its address with the help of pointers and allows the user for manipulating Bits(Binary Digits).

• Every statement in the C program should necessarily end with a semicolon. This character is called as the statement delimiter.