C Common Interview Questions

1. What is C?

C is a general purpose, server side, structured programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970's. A story started with Common Programming Language (CPL) which is designed by Martin Richards. Later it is known Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL). BCPL allow the user to direct access to the computer memory. Ken Thompson at BELL Laboratories wrote his own variant of BCPL and named as B.

2. Who is the founder of C?

Dennis Ritchie.

3. What are the features of C programming language?

• Simple structured approach
• Faster than BASIC
• Large collections of functions in its libraries
• It also allows programmers to create their own function
• Portability
• C is extensible

4. What is a Program?

Program is generally contains a collection of instructions to perform a particular task. Refer for More C Program Structure

5. List out the four basic data types in c?

• int
• char
• float
• double